ccr 760: hypertext rhetorics

collaborative project

Below is the schedule of readings for the course. As the semester progresses, and pages are submitted to the collaborative project, the dates will become links to the opening page for each week's section of the site.

January 28

Read for class: George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Chapters 1-4

Recommended:
Nancy Kaplan, E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print
Maureen Fitzpatrick, Losing Control: Writers, Readers, and Hypertext
Mindy McAdams and Stephanie Berger, Hypertext, from the Journal of Electronic Publishing
Stuart Moulthrop's Subjective Chronology of Literary Hypertext

February 4

Read for class: George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Chapters 5-8

Recommended:
Edward Jennings reviews Hypertext
Joseph DiNunzio reviews Hypertext 2.0
Charles Ross reviews both Hypertext 2.0 and Hyper/Text/Theory

February 11

Read for class: Michael Joyce, Afternoon, a Story

Recommended:
Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue, originally published in PostModern Culture

February 18

Read for class: Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

Recommended:
Allan Heaps reviews Of Two Minds for Kairos
Jim Rosenberg reviews Of Two Minds

February 25

Read for class: Essays (Birkerts, Dobrin, Kolb)

Recommended:
Laura Miller's www.claptrap.com
David Kolb, Hypertext as Subversive?, from Culture Machine
David Kolb, Socrates' Apology, a hypertext composed in response to questions raised about Socrates in the Labyrinth

March 4

Read for class: Jane Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books -- Or Books without End? Reading Interactive Narratives

Recommended:
Alex Soojung-Kim, Hypertext, the Next Generation: A Review and Research Agenda
Christopher Dean reviews The End of Books for Kairos

Notes:

March 18

Read for class: Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Recommended:
Mary Ann Eiler reviews Nostalgic Angels for Kairos
Scott DeLoach reviews Nostalgic Angels
Joseph Wilferth reviews Nostalgic Angels for RCCS

March 25

Read for class: Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

Recommended:
Nick Montfort, Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star [Be sure to peruse the responses by Katherine Hayles and M. D. Coverley]
Marku Eskelinen, Cybertext Theory and Literary Studies, A User's Manual

Notes:

April 1

Read for class: M. D. Coverley, Califia

Recommended:

Notes: Collaborative Class Notes end