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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253212421
ISBN-139780253212429
eBay Product ID (ePID)198411
Product Key Features
Number of Pages290 Pages
Publication NameCyberspace Textuality : Computer Technology and Literary Theory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPublishing, Internet / General, Social Aspects / General, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Computers, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
AuthorMarie-Laure Ryan
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-043225
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.48/34
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Marie-Laure Ryan Part One: Cybertext Theory 1. Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and The Speaking Clock: The Temporality of Ergodic Art Espen Aarseth 2. Theorizing Virtual Reality: Baudrillard and Derrida Mark Poster 3. Virtual Topogra phies: Smooth and Striated Cyberspace Mark Nunes 4. Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Text Marie-Laure Ryan Part Two: Cyberspace Identity 5. Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext Barbara Page 6. Souls of Cyber-Folk Thomas Foster 7. The Disturbing Liveliness of Machines: Re-Thinking the Body in Hypertext Fiction Christopher J. Keep 8. Postorganic Performance: The Appearance of Theatre in Virtual Spaces Matthew Causey Part Three: Cybertext Criticism as Writing Experiment 9. Artificial Life and Literary Culture N. Katherine Hayles 10. Virtual Termites: A Hypotextual Technomutant Explo(it)ration of William Gibson and the Electronic Beyond Lance Olsen 11. Myths of the Universal Library: From Alexandria to the Postmodern Age Jon Thiem Appendix: World Wide Web Sites on Cyberspace Technology Contributors Index
SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to explore the concepts of text and the forms of textualilty currently emerging from electronic technologies.