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Hypertext: further reading (partial list; and see Internet resources below)

Patrick W. Connor, 'Hypertext in the Last Days of the Book,' Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 74 (1992): 7-24.

Paul Delany and George P. Landow (Eds.), Hypermedia and Literary Studies (MIT Press, 1991).

Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1997).

Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (U Michigan P, 1994).

George P. Landow and Paul Delany (Eds.), The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities (MIT Press, 1993).

Robert Markley (Ed.), Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (John Hopkins UP, 1996). Available online at Configurations 2.3, Fall 1994 (U of A access only).

David S. Miall, 'The Hypertextual Moment,' English Studies in Canada 24 (June 1998): 157-174. (see also pre-publication draft)

David S. Miall, 'Trivializing or Liberating? The Limitations of Hypertext Theorizing, Mosaic 32 (1999): 157-172. (also online)

J. Hillis Miller, 'The Ethics of Hypertext,' Diacritics 25 (Fall 1995): 27-39.

Stuart Moulthrop, 'Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext,' Mosaic 28 (December 1995): 55-77. (also online)

Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (New York: Free Press, 1997).

Nicholas Negreponte, Being Digital (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).

Geoffrey Nunberg (Ed.), The Future of the Book (Berkeley: U California P, 1996).

Marie-Laure Ryan (Ed.), Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1999).

Myron C. Tuman, Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age (Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 1992).

Jay David Bolter, 'The Rhetoric of Interactive Fiction,' in Philip Cohen, ed., Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation (New York: Garland, 1997).

Internet essays and resources

• Home pages
  • George Landow, home page.
  • Stuart Moulthrop, home page.
  • Sherry Turkle, home page.
  • Jay David Bolter, home page.
  • Michael Joyce, home page.
  • Nancy Kaplan, home page.
  • Carolyn Guertin, home page.
  • Geoffrey Nunberg, home page.
  • Andrew Dillon, home page.
  • Janet Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997). See link from book title for more information and numerous links to hypertext, narrative, etc.
• Online essays
  • David S. Miall, Representing and Interpreting Literature by Computer (first published 1995; updated online version).
  • The Electronic Labyrinth: Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, robin (University of Victoria). A useful, if now a little dated, primer to a number of core concepts for understanding hypertext.
  • Paul Dyck, Hypertext: Theory and Practice (1996). A self-navigating hypertext essay.
  • Carol Guyer, Written on the Web. On the state of hypertext fiction.
  • Modern Fiction Studies 43.3, Fall 1997. A collection of essays edited by N. Katherine Hayles on the topic 'Technocriticism and Hypernarrative.' Authors include Michael Joyce, Stuart Moulthrop, Marie-Laure Ryan, and Robert Markley. (U of A access only)
  • Howard S. Becker, A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction (1995). There's no backlink to Becker's main site.
  • Barbara Page, Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext. Journal of Postmodern Culture 6.2 (January 1996). (U of A access only). On the implications for feminism of 'nonlinear, antihierarchical and decentered writing.'
  • Hypertext: relation to poststructuralist theory.
  • HyperContent, HyperJunk: Hypertext theory as if the WWWeb matters. Critical discussion of hypertext design on the internet, by Jorn Barger.
  • R. G. Siemens, "A worlde of wordes": Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, or, The Dynamic Text as Hypertext. A proposal for developing a hypertext vehicle for research and study.
  • Karin Wenz, Cybertextspace (cognition, semiotics, narrative . . . ). University of Kassel
  • George Landow, Hypertext: An Overview (derived from his book, 1992).
  • Review of Birkerts, Gutenberg Elegies, by Dean Blobaum. He praises Birkerts's account of reading, but finds his criticism of electronic media superficial and misdirected.
  • Jerome McGann, The Rationale of HyperText (1995).
  • Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality (1996).
  • Ilana Snyder, Hyperfiction: its possibilities in English. Online essay, mainly on hyperfiction.
  • Daniel Anderson, Not Maimed but Malted. A discussion of the spatial properties of hypertext and the use of graphics, prompted by Halio's assertion that students writing with a Macintosh produce poorer work because they were sidetracked into graphics. Anderson gives links to the response of Moulthrop and Kaplan to Halio.
  • David Golumbia, Hypercapital. On the politics of information access and its hidden liabilities.
  • Marcel O'Gorman, How to Wread Hypertext.
  • Nancy Kaplan, E-Literacies.
  • John Tolva, Ut Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality, and the Digital Word. An essay on the visual aspects of hypertext.
  • Robert M. Fowler, The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age. The author accepts the view of the electronic medium offered by Landow, Bolter, and Lanham, and considers its implications for the "canon" of texts (whether biblical or literary).
  • J. Yellowlees Douglas, Gaps, Maps And Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do. One of the few considerations of the differences between reading text and hypertext.
  • Archie Zariski, Virtual Textuality and the Library. Reflections on the emerging, dynamic concept of knowledge created by electronic textuality.
  • Archie Zariski, Virtual Words and the Fate of Law, Journal of Information, Law, and Technology, 1998 (1).
  • Eyal Amiran, John Unsworth, and Carole Chaski, Networked Academic Publishing and the Rhetorics of Its Reception. Centennial Review 36:1 (Winter 1992). Online version: has some typos -- note that Sven Birkerts is called Steve Birkerts in the text.
  • Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993). The complete text of his book in ten chapters. Chapter 3 is an informal but useful history of the Internet.
  • Dianne P. Butler, Muds as Social Learning Environments. Imaginary Realities 2:8 (August 1999).
  • Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1983).
  • John Unsworth, Electronic Scholarship or, Scholarly Publishing and the Public. See also other online papers by Unsworth listed here.
• Hyperfiction sampler
  • Gavin Inglis, Under The Ashes. An simple but elegant example of a branching structure that develops alternative meanings (or does it?).
  • Stuart Moulthrop, Hegirascope 2. The classic web hyperfiction, exasperating and delightful, now in a revised edition.
  • Susan Liepert, Headlong. Imaginative science fiction with hypertext expansions on a forward-moving structure.
  • Bibliography: hypertext fiction on the web, by Michael Shumate.
• Web design
  • Lou Rosenfeld, What is Web Architecture? (1996)
  • Jakob Nielsen, How Users Read on the Web (1997).
  • John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen, Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages (1998).
  • Nancy Kaplan and Meg Heisse, Designing Web Interfaces.
  • Neil Fraistat, Advance Web Design Resources.
• Resources
  • George Landow: Cyberspace, Hypertext, Critical Theory. Critical resources, course materials, at Landow's web site.
  • [alt.hypertext] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ list). Not just on the discussion group; also many resources for hypertext in general.
  • Eastgate. Publishers of hypertext fiction and Storyspace. Web site has numerous valuable resources: web essays, course listings, etc.
  • Perseus Project: Greek culture on the web.
  • Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, University of Toronto. For list of papers see titles: two or three papers here are on hypertext; others are on editing, computer-aided text analysis, etc.
  • A History of the Internet, at the Computer Museum History Center (principal events from 1962-92).
  • Women and Computing. Links to numerous online resources, addressing gender issues in communication, the experience of women working in the field of computing, and feminist issues more generally.
  • Hypertext references on The Voice of the Shuttle (bibliographies, essays, online courses, etc.)
  • Hypertext Bibliography, Scott Stebelman, George Washington University
  • Michael Shumate, Hyperizons: Theory and Technique of Hypertext Fiction, an annotated guide to online resources. See also the menu at the bottom of the document for further resources. And see Shumate's helpful, informal essay, Hypertext Fiction on the Web, 1996.
  • Theory: Hypermedia Research Center. Short essays on a range of topics.
  • Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Includes a bibliography, a list of courses with online components, etc. The focus is not quite the same as in our course, but you may find some helpful leads.

Cultural theory and postmodernism

Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).

Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (New York & London: Routledge, 1988).

Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1984).

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London and New York: Methuen, 1982).

Reading and reader response

Charles R. Cooper (Ed.), Researching Response to Literature and the Teaching of Literature (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1985).

Jerry R. Hobbs, Literature and Cognition (Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1990).

Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1978).

David S. Miall, 'Anticipation and feeling in literary response: A neuropsychological perspective,' Poetics 23 (1995): 275-298. (also online)

David S. Miall & Don Kuiken, 'Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories,' Poetics 22 (1994): 389-407. (also online)

David S. Miall & Don Kuiken, 'Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response,' Discourse Processes 17 (1994): 337-352. (also online)

David S. Miall & Don Kuiken, Forms of Reading: Recovering the Self as Reader. Paper presented at the XIV Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Prague, August 1-4, 1996. Revised version published as 'The Form of Reading: Empirical Studies of Literariness,' Poetics 25 (1998): 327-341.

Victor Nell, Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure (New Haven: Yale UP, 1988).

Louise M. Rosenblatt, The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978).

Stanley B. Straw & Deanne Bogdan (Eds.), Constructive Reading: Teaching Beyond Communication (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1993).

Jane P. Tompkins (Ed.), Reader-Response Criticism from Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Baltimore, John Hopkins UP, 1980).

Nicholas Zill and Marianne Winglee, Who Reads Literature? The Future of the United States as a Nation of Readers (Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1990)

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