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supporting websites:

     author websites with works, articles, and links:
          Deena Larsen, Marjorie Luesebrink, Robert Kendall, Bill Bly, Carolyn Guyer, Carolyn Guertin, Judy Malloy, Michael Joyce,

     Electronic Literature Organization. Click on Showcase to find a comprehensive set of annotated links to new releases, poetry, fiction, electronic journals, non-fiction/memoir, clues from other spaces, and related sites and groups.

     Eastgate Systems, Inc., "the primary source for serious hypertext." Visit the link to hypertext resources to find cutting edge theory and practice; tips, techniques, and theory for hypertext writers; links to authors of hypertext; compendia of online resources; lists of print resources; hypertext on the web; criticism; speculation; tech; courses; events and a hypertext calendar.

     Word Circuits, "the place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page." The Gallery is a showcase for original poetry and fiction, while the HTLit Column offers essays and reviews. An extensive Directory catalogs authors, publishing sites, critical writings, and mailing lists. Check the Bulletin Board for announcements of events, publishing opportunities, and more.

     Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery, Carolyn Guertin. An international gathering of women's voices as showcase of new media art being created in hypertext on and off the WWW.

     Hyperizons, Michael Shumate's hypertext fiction site at Duke University needs much updating, which he plans to do in fall 2000. Keep checking here. Lots of good stuff.

     Mother Millenia.   "Accumulating body of linked works on the subject of Mother, told from as many different cultural perspectives as possible, world-wide. On this site, all of these works are called stories and come in a variety of forms, including memoirs, graphical narratives, fiction, oral histories, poetry, essays, video, and sounds. We are at the beginning stages and seek your participation." --Carolyn Guyer

     enarrative.org, a new organization concerned with the role of narrative in the Web experience.

 

     Tech Head Stories, a miscellany of pieces about storytelling.

     Down to Earth in Cyberspace, a Canadian site for consciousness-raising and information-exchange for women and women's groups to facilitate their use of information and communication technologies.

     Electronic Poetry Center. University of Buffalo.

     Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory. Brown University.

     The Glide Project, exploration of the possibilities of a visual language in a post-cybernetic world.

     Poetry Daily, an online source of poetry selected from a variety of literary journals. Other information.


technical:

     Look See, Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing

     whatis.com, database of current definitions of technical terminology

     Simplified Page Design, by Joe Essid and Michael Keller

     getting help with FrontPage from VCU Academic Computing

     Fractint, a site with fractals and a downloadable software for producing them

critical:

     Electronic Literature: Thinking Outside the Book, an LA Times article by Kim Murphy, July 24, 2000.

     Ilana Snyder, ed. Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era.  Routledge, 1998. A collection of scholarly discussions on the impacts of new media on language, including analyses of the potential of new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual representation, new forms of rhetoric, learning in the age of global communication networks and new approaches to storytelling.

elizabeth j. cooper
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