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Letters That Matter: The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1

Electronic Literature circa WWW (and Before)

Chris Funkhouser reads the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 as a crucial document, an effective reflection of literary expression and areas of textual exploration in digital form.

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Even though the collection lacks a formal timeline, Chris Funkhouser praises the possibility of tracing the evolution of digital textuality within the past two decades in his own review of ELC 1, also available on ebr.

‐ Stefanie Boese

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Our treatment of words and letters as material objects is of particular concern to Walter Benn Michaels in The Shape of the Signifier, reviewed here by Lori Emerson.

‐ Lori Emerson

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ebr has long been an advocate of critical and creative pieces on/of eletronic literature – its ever-growing collection of writing includes work by the editors of the ELC (Strickland, Hayles, Montfort, and Rettberg) as well as work by contributors to the ELC (Strickland, Hayles, Montfort, and Rettberg) as well as work by contributors to the ELC (Sondheim, Memmott, and Stefans).

‐ Lori Emerson

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Linda Brigham writes of how Hayles, in My Mother was a Computer, in her continued vigilance against technologically inspired monisms, has produced not only a critical book, but a riven, multifocal book, far from equilibrium.

‐ Lori Emerson

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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.

‐ Lori Emerson

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