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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.

Reviewing the Reviewers of Literary Hypertexts

Of Graphomania, Confession, and the Writing Self

Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.

Electronic Books?

Ken Perlin’s response

Review of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Scott Hermanson considers the Companion's success in negotiating its own position between digital literature and print media.

Reading Writing Space

Anne Burdick reads Jay David Bolter's Writing Space.

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In his review of the same collection, John Zuern points to the serious omission of the editors’ own contributions to electronic literature. The review is available here.

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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.

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