elizabeth cooper
faculty symposium
february 24, 1999
native and non-native hypertext
elizabeth cooper:
Eastgate
Systems
Eastgate publishes "serious" fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hypertext tools
such as Storyspace in stand-alone electronic form (disks and CD-ROMs). Chief scientist
Mark Bernstein describes his scholarly bibliography
as a "brief and idiosyncratic bibliography of hypertext, with an emphasis on
Storyspace and the systems that have influenced it over the years." Eastgate's bibliography of hypertext
criticism includes current and classic pieces. --ejc 2/13/99
Yahoo!:Web-Published
Fiction
Yahoo! lists multiple categories of popular fiction: children, young adult, adult (I
visited this section and wondered why everything was about sex until I remembered what
"adult fiction" meant. Duh!), fan fiction, interactive fiction, mysteries,
romance, etc.) Although I've been told that the Yahoo! subject directories have
humans rather than machines categorizing titles, a visit here will cause you to wonder. --ejc
2/14/99
Some Hypertext Resources
Most extensive, uptodate list of serious hypertexts I've seen recently; unfortunately,
some of the links don't work. Includes Eastgate fictions, a long list of
"selected" web fictions, HT lists and zines, and important compendia. Compiled
by Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer. In use in Electronic Writing, Vassar College, Spring
1999. --ejc 2/16/99
Links to Electronic Book and
Text Sites
OmniMedia Digital Publishing provides uptodate list of sites that distribute e-books/texts
or that directly address subjects pertaining to electronic book publishing. The text may
or may not be hypertextual.
Poetry Daily
Set your browser to open to this site every morning to start your day with a poem.
Atlantic Unbound:
Poetry Pages
Includes links to sound files of famous poets reading the poetry of other famous poets.
TOCs, Chunks, and Texts about Hypertext Literature
Hypertext
Fiction.
Scott Rettberg, Mining Company's reviewer on 11/01/98, provides a background article
and many annotated links to hypertext resources, hypertext fiction, hypertext journals,
hypertext authors, and hypertext conferences. But beware: to quote Michael Keller,
"the reviewer lists reputable sites but gets many of his facts wrong in the
introductory commentary. He also fosters the misconception that hypertext and the Web are
one and the same." (2/12/99)
Hyperizons
Michael Shumate's excellent site on hypertext fiction hasn't been updated since mid-1997.
It's worth serious investigation, but don't be disappointed if some of the links don't
work. --ejc 2/12/ 99
Hypertext
Fiction and Theory
Rita Raley's quite extensive syllabus for her graduate course at the University of
Minnesota, Winter 1999, provides a set of supplementary links to more stories and
hyperbooks; hypertext poetry and poetics; participatory, collaborative, or interactive
narrative archives; indexes, archives, anthologies, and "URLographies"; more
projects, installations, and criticism; and listservs and newsgroups.
Hyperfiction: Beyond the
Printed Page contains an annotated list of original hyperfictions and hypertheory,
reviews, authors, and other resources. Composed by students of George Dillon at the
University of Washington in spring 1998. --ejc 8/13/98
Writer's
on Writing: Crafting Hypertext Fiction: "This site addresses the process of
writing Hypertext fiction, as well as craft issues specific to the form. The focus is
writer-centered: I look to authors for discussion of practical concerns, views, theories,
and the all-enigmatic 'creative process' as they relate specifically to the creation of
hypertextfiction." --Vicki Henriksen, The Ohio State University (June 1997) --ejc
8/13/98
Screenwriters and Playwrights
Home Page
Charles Deemer. 1999.
Poetry Resources on the Web
from the Poetry Society of America
Includes sites to Native American
Authors, South African Poetry
Sites, among many others.
Papers
A New Art Form: Hypertext
Fiction
Howard S. Becker.Univeristy of Washington. 1995.
What is Hyperdrama?
Charles Deemer (free lance author and playwright). No clear date.
The World Wide Web: Publishing's Awakening
Giant
Robert Kendall asks: What does the Web mean for the future of creative writing? (Poets & Writers Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998)
Electronic and/or Hypertext Journals
Postmodern Culture
Special
Issue on Hypertext, May 1997.
Poets and Writers Online
Resources for creative writers.
New River
A journal of hypertext and hypermedia literature and art since about 1997. Editor Ed Falco
at Virginia Tech calls it a revolving archive.
The Blue Moon Review
Claims to be the first electronic quarterly online to focus exclusively on literary work
(First issue release: June, 1994). Publishes fiction, poetry, essay, all submitted
electronically.
Literal Latté
An electronic journal of prose, poetry, and art in its fifth year from New York City.
Salt Hill
Nicely designed literary magazine out of Syracuse that features hypertext alongside
"regular" poetry and fiction.
Hyper-X
A site for innovative hypertext fiction, art, and theory from Mark America's Alt-X Online Publishing Network.
PubSphere
A literary showcase for hypermedia artists, from Brown University; fundamentally a
Web-based magazine, but also a hypertextual space which attempts to provide redefinition
to the idea of publishing for the New Media Age, according to editor Bill Peña.
A Tiny Sampler of Works on the WWW
Michael Joyce, Twelve Blue, 1996
Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden, 1995, WWW Sampler version.
Stuart Moulthrop, Hegirascope, 1997
Raymond Queneau, A Fairy Tale As You Like It (date ?)
Grammatron, 1998, from Mark Amerika, uses "push" technology, in this hypertext project of more color and images than words. The New York Times said Mark Amerika's Grammatron is "grappling with the idea of spirituality in the electronic age." Scott Rettberg calls it "A massive theoretical/narrative project." I'm not sure I'd quite say all that, but it's worth taking a look!--ejc 2/12/99