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Hypertext Fiction & Digital Poetries
ENGL 165LT - Fall 2002, Rita Raley



Thu, 9/26	Introduction: Literature and Information Technologies
	Peter Howard, "A Poppy" [plain text] [animated version] Peter Howard, "Xylo" Recommended Readings: Stephanie Strickland, "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot"

Tue, 10/1

Storyspace and Eastgate

Readings Due: Judy Malloy, l0ve 0ne

Recommended Readings: Judy Malloy, Works

Thu, 10/3

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Readings Due:

J. Yellowlees Douglas, I Have Said Nothing

Mary Kim Arnold, Lust

Note: Eastgate disks available from UCSB bookstore or <http://www.eastgate.com>. CDs are not available, so if you do not have a floppy drive, then you will want to read the texts in the Transcriptions studio during TA office hours. The disks are also on reserve in Davidson Library.

Recommended Readings:

Commentary on Arnold and Douglas in the Transcriptions "Guide to Readings" Archive

Tue, 10/8

Print Hypertexts

For a showing of artists's books this week, I will arrange for a class trip to the Rare Books room in Davidson Library.

Readings Due:

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths"

Borges, "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain"

Note: To print the stories, set margins to about .25" and change orientation from "portrait" to "landscape.")

Recommended Readings:

Browse Marzenna and Julius Donajski, "Garden of Forklike Paths" and Martin Hadis, Internetaleph

Artists's books (Special Collections viewing; TR 3:20-4:20)

Thu, 10/10

Readings Due: Transcriptions TA tech training: class meets in South Hall 2509

Tue, 10/15

Print Hypertexts (cont.)

Readings Due: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters (first half of novel)

Thu, 10/17

Readings Due: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters

Tue, 10/22

Combinatorial Writing and Ergodic Text

Readings Due:

Espen Aarseth, “The Cyborg Author,” from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

Permutations

Raymond Queneau, "A Fairytale As You Like It" and "100,000,000,000,000 Poems"

Selections from Oulipo (especially Harry Matthews, “The Poet’s Eye”)

Recommended Readings:

Stéphane Susana, "A Roundup of Constrained Writing on the Web"

Browse Oulipo site; or, browse Stéfan Sinclair's Oulipo ("the Workshop of potential computer literature [Ouvroir de Littérature Informatique Potentiel] is my little way of grouping together a variety of projects that bring together notions of Oulipo and of computers")

I Ching

RACTER FAQ (about the supposed text-generation program)

HyperPo (software for text exploration and analysis)

Thu, 10/24

Permutations: Cut-ups and Collage

Readings Due:

Brion Gysin, Cut-Ups Self-Explained; The Cut-up Technique (Burroughs); and The Cut-up Machine

Helen Thorington (with M.R. Petit and John Neilson), Solitaire

The Assoziations Blaster

Nam June Paik video screen installations: Guggenheim; Smithsonian and Megatron / Matrix installation

Recommended Readings:

Introduction to Dada and Surrealism (BBC)