Derrida delves deeply into the concepts of readability and iterability in Limited Inc, and Bill Seaman thinks about how these ideas function in electronic environments in “Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics.” Derrida delves deeply into the concepts of readability and iterability in Limited Inc, and Bill Seaman thinks about how these ideas function in electronic environments in “Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics.”

Elsewhere Michaels has made the well-known argument that interpretation is the search for intention. See the “Against Theory” essays that Michaels coauthored with Steven Knapp; the essays appeared in Critical Inquiry in the early eighties. Elsewhere Michaels has made the well-known argument that interpretation is the search for intention. See the “Against Theory” essays that Michaels coauthored with Steven Knapp; the essays appeared in Critical Inquiry in the early eighties.

In her review of the Electronic Literature Collection, Adalaide Morris insists that the collection is, emphatically, a collection of “literature” in electronic media, a genre in development since the first-generation hypertext poetry and fiction of the mid-1980s.

John Zuern’s review of the ELC also touches on the pedagogical possibilities of the collection. John Zuern’s review of the ELC also touches on the pedagogical possibilities of the collection.

Adalaide Morris more specifically considers the ‘tutor texts’ in the Electronic Literature Collection and, in doing so, articulates a poetics for the emerging field of e-lit. Chris Funkhouser, on the other hand, reads the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 as an effective reflection of literary expression and areas of textual exploration in digital form.

David Zauhar provides a critical overview of Perloff’s oeuvre from the 1990s and similarly reads her readings as ways of doing, rather than saying.

Jerome McGann addresses on ebr the so-called “Crisis in the Humanities” in the context of two of its most apparent symptoms: the digital transformation of our museums and archives, and the explicitly parallel “Crisis in Tenure and Publishing” that has more recently come to attention.

Marjorie Perloff offers another “nifty demonstration” of her trademark style of close-reading in “Robert Creeley’s Radical Poetics.”

As Martin Rosenberg shows us, Deleuze and Guattari’s difficult tour de force A Thousand Plateaus is similarly accessible in that it can be used in conjunction with topics as varied as feminist visual art and cognitive science.

All three ebr reviews (by Chris Funkhouser, Adalaide Morris, and John Zuern) on the Electronic Literature Collection touch on the ways in which e-writing builds on a rich tradition of bookbound, constraint-based writing.