Electronic Literature
Supplemental and Background Materials
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Student Projects
Section 3: Print Novels and Digital Culture
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
Dream HBO cast
Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Initial movie trailer
Student Exercise Samples
Section 2: Genres of Electronic Literature
Volume 1 of the Electronic Literature Collection (which comes with your textbook) is also available online, as is the recently released Volume 2:
Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
T Sept 13 Hypertext/Hypermedia 1 Review (4.1) twelve blue. Read excerpt of afternoon, a story. Hypertext criticism: "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Th Sept 15 CLASS CANCELLED. Apply for UNI webspace Recommend an interactive fiction text (email jim.oloughlin@uni.edu). Places you may find one: http://pr-if.org/play/ http://www.bdesilets.com/if/
T Sept 20 Hypertext/Hypermedia 2 Read Borges, “The Garden of Forked Paths”, Hayles 74-85, (5.3) “The Jew’s Daughter.” Browse General Hospital hyperfiction on www.soapzone.com (opening an account is optional but encouraged).
Th Sept 22 Interactive Fiction Review (7.2) Galatea. Read (6.4) “Whom the Telling Changed.” Recommended IF. Using Dreamweaver to upload.
T Sept 27 Easy animation tools. Xtranormal, stop-motion for Dummies. "The Sound and the Fury" Lego trailer.
Th Sept 29 Body and Machine Read Hayles 87-93, 120-30, (8.1) “ii – in the white darkness,” (Volume 2 1.2) “Separation.” GRAD STUDENTS ONLY: Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
T Oct 4 Taking Video Games Seriously 1. Read excerpt from Johnson, Everything Bad is Good for You, Play (5.6) “Stud Poetry,” “Passage." Read “The Video Game Programmer Saving Our 21st Century Souls” ”
Th Oct 6 Taking Video Games Seriously 2. Read/play (Volume 2, 8.1) “Inanimate Alice (Episode 4). Get account for Scratch. Read Getting Started.
T Oct 11 Blogging/Catch up day. Read Barthleme, “The Balloon. Tentative Guest Speaker.
Th Oct 13 Visual Poetry 1. Traditional VP compilation.
T Oct 18 Visual Poetry 2. (3.1) “Generative Poetry,” (3.2) “Rice,” (3.6) “Open Ended,” (4.4) “Girls Day Out,” (8.3) “Tao,” (8.4) “Strings." Volume 2: (1.8) “The Mandrake Vehicles,” (2.1) “Entre Ville”
Th Oct 20 Using Flash. Read/play Create a poem using Flash . Flash Animation Basics (now optional, but consider getting a Wix account).
T Oct 25 Digital Humanities. What is Digital Humanities? Analyzing Literature By Words and Numbers. Google Ngram. Many Eyes
Th Oct 27 Work time. Class visit by Scott Smith (become familiar with his blog: Screenwriting From Iowa)
T Nov 1 Paper 2 due. Start section 3: Print Novels and Digital Culture.
Section 1: Introductions
Volume 1 of the Electronic Literature Collection (which comes with your textbook) is also available online, as is the recently released Volume 2:
Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
T Aug. 23 From Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
(6.2) Inanimate Alice: Part 1
(1.4) Cruising
(2.6) Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky
Th. Aug. 25 Hayles, Electronic Literature, Chapter 1: “Electronic Literature: What Is It?” (pgs. 1-5)
(5.8) 10:01
(2.4) Wotclock
(3.4) Soliloquy (you only need to skim this one)
(4.1) twelve blue
OPTIONAL: Stephanie Strickland, "Born Digital"
T. Aug. 30 Varieties of Electronic Literature (5-30: GRADUATE STUDENTS 5-42)
Lasting Image
(3.5) Frequently Asked Questions About Hypertext (can be skimmed)
(7.2) Galatea <read this first: Cheats & Walkthroughs>
(2.2) Translation (make sure to do shift-E for English version)
(1.6) Code Movie 1
(4.2) Faith
Th. Sept. 1 Electronic Literature and Digital Culture
Gopnik, "How the Internet Gets Inside Us"
Miller, Understanding Digital Culture introduction <Grad Students Only>
Barthleme, “The Balloon”
(8.7) The Fall of the Site of Marsha
T Sept. 6 E-readers and E-reading
Auletta, "Publish or Perish"
The Sherlock Holmes Experience Vook (must purchase online).
iPad lab class.
Th. Sept. 8 Section 1 exam