Considerations for This Week, 1-14-19

Here are topics we will explore today in relation to the book, Electronic Literature, by Scott Rettberg:

• The impact of the affordances of the medium and platform
• Structure=Meaning
• Genre (of course)

References and Suggested Works

• Christopher Strachey, “Loveletters,” 1952
• Theodore Lutz, “Stochastic Texts,” 1959
• Alison Knowles and James Tenney, “House of Dust,” 1967
• Nick Montfort, “Taroko Gorge,” 2009
• Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, “Sea and Spar Between,” 2012
• Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” 1941
• Mark Amerika, “Grammatron,” 1997
• John Kusch, “Red Lily,” 1999 (Wayback Machine)
• Ana Maria Uribe, “Typoemas & Anipoemas,” 1997
• Maria Mencia, “Birds Singing Other Birds Songs,” 2001
• Tim Wright, “Online Caroline,” 2000-1

Special Resource for Today

• Wayback Machine, https://archive.org/web/