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1 online resource (134 pages) |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524 |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Conceptual Framework and Terminology -- 1.2 Digital Modernism and Social Materialism -- 1.3 Methodology -- 2 Between Paradigms -- 2.1 Publishing at the Turn of the Millennium -- 2.2 Digi-modernist Little Magazine -- 2.3 Product Concept and Business Model -- 2.4 Material Forms and Processes -- 2.5 Copyright, Contracts, and Royalties -- 2.6 Building a Community -- 2.7 Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 3 The Works -- 3.1 Poetry |
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3.1.1 Jim Rosenberg: Folding Visual Language Space -- 3.1.2 "Into an Alien Ocean": Kathy Mac's "Unnatural Habitats" -- 3.1.3 "The Shattered Eye Sees Deeper": Rob Swigart's "Directions" -- 3.1.4 "What's in Here out There": Edward Falco's Sea Island -- 3.1.5 "Iron Weights Swinging from Their Pricks": Richard Gess's "Mahasukha Halo" -- 3.1.6 "Seasoned Heart" and "Love's Deserts": Robert Kendall's" A Life Set for Two" -- 3.2 Short Fiction -- 3.2.1 "Longing for Morning": Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" -- 3.2.2 "That's All She Wrote": J. Yellowlees Douglas's "I Have Said Nothing." |
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3.2.3 "Obsessive Fragmentation": Kathryn Cramer's "In Small & Large Pieces" -- 3.2.4 "[I]t Doesn't Matter because It's Me": Judith Kerman's" Mothering" -- 3.2.5 Dodging the Storyspace Bug: Deena Larsen's "Century Cross" -- 3.2.6 A "Scotomic Episode": Michael van Mantgem's "Completing the Circle" -- 3.2.7 "The Path of Madness": Richard Smyth's "Genetis: A Rhizography" -- 3.3 Nonfiction -- 3.4 Print Paratexts -- 4 Conclusion -- Appendix Technical Details of Individual Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext Works -- Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Electronic publishing -- United States -- History
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Electronic publishing
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108903165 |
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1108903169 |
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