2004
On Joseph McElroy's Fiction as a lifelong, dramatic investigation of noesis - that abstract but evocative concept rooted in Platonic idealism and redefined(through Phenomenology) as those ineluctable acts of consciousness that constitute reality.
Excerpted from Water Writing - an essay; presented as part of the ebr Critical Ecologies thread; concurrent with a literary Festschrift in honor of Joseph McElroy's lifework.
Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Charles Molesworth on style and spatial form in McElroy's Letter Left to Me, a novel whose poetic making is also an ethical growth.
Gregg Biglieri reads "into" Actress in the House and revels in Joseph McElroy's syntax.
Joseph Milazzo writes about one of the least written about books by Joseph McElroy.
A Review of Malise Ruthven's A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, from Tim Keane, with links to a growing body of writing on terror in ebr.
"The plot offers not so much progress as recurrence, duplication, and reiteration." Flore Chevaillier offers one way to fill in the gaps of Joseph McElroy "Canoe Repair."
Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.
Yves Abrioux approaches Woman and Men (1987) as an extended novelistic medition on cognition and action.
Adrian Miles on themes of print vs. digital, engagement vs. immersion, easy vs. difficult, and affect vs. effect, as they appear in section five of First Person.
Ian Demsky on Joseph McElroy's Ancient History and welcome interruptions.
It's "Game Time." Here in section four we see what the dynamics of time and space have to do with the games people play.
Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.
Ian Bogost, the co-designer of The Howard Dean for Iowa Game (along with First Person contributor Gonzalo Frasca), deconstructs section three.
Simon Penny re-collects the dimensions of simulation-as-training in martial arts, football, and ballet (not to mention computer games).
On the occasion of the 2003 Fitzpatrick O'Dinn Award publication, Alan Sondheim asks some questions of formally constrained literature. The more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions.
An Internet response to Simon Penny that separates the transfer of gaming skills from ethics.
Mark Barret cautions against reinventing the wheel in this riposte to Cyberdrama and to Janet Murray's essay.