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Course Novelists
Auster
- Paul Auster (The Definitive Website)
Links to biographies, interviews, and articles on Auster and his fiction (City of Glass is included in New York Trilogy). - Worldguide Interview
Stephen Capen's 1996 interview with Auster.
- Constant Reader Discussion of White Noise
Transcript of reader discussion of the novel, with information on how you can join the dialogue.
- Don DeLillo's America
Page contains biography, synopses of novels, plays, and other writing, bibliography, list of critical analyses of DeLillo’s work, reviews, interviews, and links. - New York State Writer's Institute Page on DeLillo
Excerpts from reviews, a 1993 Paris Review interview with DeLillo, and links to two articles, one of which describes DeLillos’ work through White Noise. - Salon.com on DeLillo
Article on DeLillo, with brief biography and discussion of his work. - White Noise on White
Noise
Thirty-six fragments from White Noise, each fragment contains links to web sites "chosen by the 'author' to have relevance to the passage being quoted."
- Neil Gaiman
Gaiman's home page, with journals, a message board, information on his work, and exclusive material, including an essay on Dave McKean. - Neil Gamain Interview
January Magazine interview with Gaiman.
- Booksense.com
Interview with Jackson. - The Doll Games
Archeological study of the doll games played by Jackson and her sister, Pamela. - Frankenstein, or the
Modern Prometheus
Read the full 1818 text of Mary Shelley's novel--and Patchwork Girl source--online.
- My Body
Jackson's hypertext "autobiography with lies."
- Patchwork Girl
Comments & Etc.
Materials generated by George Landow's students include essays and comments on Jackson's themes, style, narrative structure, symbolism, use of literary theory, characterization, and other topics. - The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Read the full text of L. Frank Baum's 1913 novel--and source for Jackson's Patchwork Girl--online.
- The Perfomative and Processual: A Study of
Hypertext/Post-Colonial Aesthetic
Professor Jaishree Odin's analysis of opposition potential of hypertext and post-colonial aesthetics, with a focus on Patchwork Girl and Ceremony. The table of contents at the bottom of the screen links to other pages of analysis.
- Shelley
Jackson’s Ineradicable Stain
Jackson's home page, with reviews, “biography,” writings, and more.
- An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko
Interview with The Write Stuff's Thomas Irmer.
- A Laguna Woman
Silko biography authored by Professor Robert Nelson. - Laguna Pueblo
A profile of Laguna Pueblo written by student Alice Salcido as a project for a Southwestern Literature course.
- Sunrise and Ceremony
Professor Robert Nelson analyzes Silko's use of the sunrise trope in Ceremony's "embedded texts." Nelson views Ceremony as "an example of 'post-modern intertextuality'-- a text in which two kinds of text, one prose in narrative mode and the other embedded poetry in several modes, derive (or better yet, recover) a semblance of authority from a third, absent yet acknowledged, text, that is, the ethnographic pretext." - Voices from the Gap Silko Page
Description of Silko's works, a bibliography of criticism and interviews, and links to other resources.
Packet Authors
Baudrillard
- Baudrillard and Simulation
Summary and applications of Baudrillard's concept of simulation; written by George Mason University professor Byron Hawk. - "Did You Ever Eat Tasty Wheat?": Baudrillard and The Matrix
William Merrin reads The Matrix though Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. - Moebius Baudrillard
Student web commentary on Simulacra and Simulation.
- Discussion of "What is an Author?"
Dr. Mary Klages outlines and explains Foucault's text.
- Carolyn Keen on "A Cyborg Manifesto"
Keen's outline of Haraway's essay.
- A Cyborg Manifesto
The complete essay. - Hyperlink to Donna Haraway
Page of links to resources on Haraway, cyborgs, cyberpunk, feminism and course materials that use Haraway's work.
- You Are Cyborg
Wired profile of Haraway.
Postmodernism Resources
- Approaches to Po-Mo
An introduction to ways of thinking about postmodernism.
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and
Postmodern Thought
Links to resources on selected writers, including Lyotard, Foucault, Baudrillard, Haraway, and Jameson.
- Doom Patrols
UW English and Comparative Literature professor Steven Shaviro's "theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture." - Globalization and the Postmodern Turn
Douglas Kellner's attempt to develop a critical theory of globalization. Kellner theorizes globalization in terms of both the modern and the postmodern "because we are currently involved in an interregnum period between an aging modern and an emerging postmodern era."
- Postmodernism Described
Professor Mary Klages's orginal lecture notes on postmodernism and an addition to these notes.
- Postmodern Fiction Timeline
From book site for Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology; offers overview of historical and political and cultural events and works of art (books, films, etc.) and critical texts produced from 1945 to 1998. - Postmodernism and the Postmodern Novel
From the Electronic Labyrinth, a short discussion of postmodernism offered in an overall project that places the development of hypertext within non-linear print fiction and discusses hypertext novels. - Postmodern Virtualities
Mark Poster's analysis of how electronic technologies support the emergence of a postmodern subject.
- Understanding Media
The first seven chapters from Part I of media theorist Marshall McLuhan's seminal text Understanding Media.
- Voice of the Shuttle Postmodernism Page
Extensive page of links to resources on postmodernism; contains general resources on postmodern theory and information on individual theorists.
Hypertext (and Hyperfiction, and Cybertext, and Web Art): Texts and Theory
- Eastgate
Systems
Publisher of Jackson's Patchwork Girl and distributor of Storyspace, the program Jackson used to create her hypertext. Site also offers a free 30-day trial of Storyspace.
- FILMTEXT 2.0
By Mark Amerika; "investigate[s] the interrelationship between net art, hypermedia narrative and interactive cinema.” - Hegirascope
Stuart Moulthrop's time-based fiction.
- GRAMMATRON
Mark Amerika's cybertext depicts "a near-future world where stories are no longer conceived for book production but are instead created for a more immersive networked-narrative environment that, taking place on the Net, calls into question how a narrative is composed, published and distributed in the age of digital dissemination.” - Hypertext: Read What You Write and Write What You Read
Project authored by Stephen Dinan, a student in a hyperrhetoric class at the University of Texas. Dinan distinguishes hyperfiction from hypertext and discusses the demands of reading hyperfiction.
- Hypertext Gardens
Mark Bernstein's discussion of "the navigation problem" in hypertext. Bernstein argues for moving away from rigid navigation to navigation based on landscape design and architecture.
- Lexia to Perplexia
Talan Memmott's exploration of the imbrication between human subjectivity and computer technologies.
- On Reading and Hypertext
Excerpts from John Barth, Michael Joyce, Sven Birkets, and Richard Lanham’s writing on hypertext and the practice of reading. - Safara in the Beginning
Chrisy Sheffield Sanford's web novel of Safara, an African princess taken as a slave from Senegal to Martinique in the seventeenth century; discussed by George Landow in "Reconfiguring Narrative" (in course packet). - Twelve Blue
Michael Joyce's web-based hypertext "story in eight bars."
Reading and Writing About Literature
- Guidelines to MLA Citation Style
From the Purdue OWL, guidelines for correct MLA citation; includes examples. - Plagiarism Discussed
A Purdue OWL handout on what can constitute plagiarism, with information on when and when not to cite sources. - Plot Summary vs. Interpretive Writing
From the Writing Center at George Mason University comes a PowerPoint presentation that distinguishes plot summary, a bad strategy for writing about literature, from interpretive writing, the goal of writing about literature. - Writing About Literature: Some Dos and Don'ts
Guidelines for writing about literature, from the George Mason University Writing Center.
Research
- Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based Web Resources
Authored by UCLA librarian Esther Grassian, this page offers criteria for evaluating discipline-based world wide web sites. Writers can use Grassian's list to help them decide whether a particular web source is appropiate for an academic research paper or presentation. - UW Libraries Research 101 Page
This page defines primary and secondary sources, describes the information cycle and offers tips on how to construct search statements, select databases and evaluate sources. - UW Libraries Subject Page: English
Information on finding books and articles on literature, with links to bibliographies, electronic texts, dictionaries, electronic journals and other resources.
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