The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments And Permissions
Contributors
Introduction
	Sources Cited
Part One Ends, Beginnings
	Chapter One I Hold It Toward You: A Show Of Hands
	Chapter Two Our Tools Make Us (and Our Literature) Post
		The Dawn Of Us
		Jump Cut 1450
		Jump Cut To Today
		Into The Jungle
		Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, Even If The Beholder Is An Algorithm
		Postliterary Literature
		An Apology For Postliterary Literature
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	Chapter Three Lift This End: Electronic Literature In A Blue Light
		Recycling Works
		Interface And Database
		In Arrears
		What Green Means
		Blue Depths
		Shape Through Seaming
		Lift This End
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	Chapter Four The Advent Of Aurature And The End Of (electronic) Literature
		At The End Of Literature
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Part Two Poetics, Polemics
	Chapter Five “your Visit Will Leave A Permanent Mark”: Poetics In The Post-digital Economy
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	Chapter Six Literature And Netprov In Social Media: A Travesty, Or, In Defense Of Pretension
		The Old Tradition Of “novelty”
		Toward A Minor Literature
		Antecedents: Wells, Defoe, Stoker
		Gothic Fiction, Or: Trump As Netprov?
		Digital Fictionizing
		Direct Fictionalization Becomes Canonical
		Uniform Typography: The Great Leveler
		The Performance Of Identity On The Web
		Creative Threats To The Consumer Ego
		In Defense Of Pretension
		Generative Collaborations
		Surrealism, Church Of The Subgenius, And Invisible Seattle As “worlds”
		Conclusion
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	Chapter Seven Narrativity
		The Evolution Of Narrativity As A Concept
		Key Narratological Concepts For Describing Narrativity
		Sample Text: Today I Die
		Unique Features Of Electronic Literature For Narrativity
			The Narrativity Of Language
			Time
			Textual Architecture
			Agency And Event
		Conclusion
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	Chapter Eight Rebooting Cognition In Electronic Literature
		Extensions, Associations, And Totalizations
		Mindful Posturing In Mimesis
		A Pinch Of Memory In Pry
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	Chapter Nine The Freedom Adventure Of Portuguese Experimentalism And Kinetic Poetry
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	Chapter Ten Writing Under Constraint Of The Regime Of Computation
		Constraints As Means Of Literary Production And Invention
		Underwriting Constraints
		Overwriting Constraints
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	Chapter Eleven Electronic Literature And The Poetics Of Contiguity
		Contiguity
		Poetics
		Continuity
			“sea And Spar Between”
			Pry
		Conclusion
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	Chapter Twelve Combination And Copulation: Making Lots Of Little Poems
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	Chapter Thirteen Glitch Poetics: The Posthumanities Of Error
		New Media Are Glitches
		Posthumanities
		About Face
		Speed Readers
		Negative Docs
		Think You Know Me
		Predictive Text
		Meddle English
		Conclusion
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Part Three Materialities, Ontologies
	Chapter Fourteen Flat Logics, Deep Critique: Temporalities, Aesthetics, And Ecologies In Electronic Literature On The Web
		Screen Surfaces And Bottomless Flatness
		Flat Aesthetics, Flat Language
		Deep Time, Veiling Screens
		Flat Imaginaries
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	Chapter Fifteen Immanence, Inc.: Algorithm, Flow, And The Displacement Of The Real
		Writing And Excess
		Recombinant Poetics
		The Holy Grails Of Electronic Literature
		The Poetics Of Disgust
		Immanence Inc.
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	Chapter Sixteen Hypertext: Storyspace To Twine
		Concepts And Definitions
		Hypertext And Poststructuralist Literary Theory
		Hypertext And The Web
		Hypertext As Literary Gaming: The Rise Of Twine
		Concluding Thoughts: Hypertext Now And In The Future
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	Chapter Seventeen Internet And Digital Textuality: A Deep Reading Of 10:01
		Tui, Gui, And Html
		Cybertexts And Multimedial Works
		10:01
		Design
		Narrative
		Reader’s Experience
		Conclusion
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	Chapter Eighteen Of Presence And Electronic Literature
		Electronic Literature
		Cave And Materiality
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	Chapter Nineteen Postmodern, Posthuman, Post-digital
		Postmodernism And Digital Literary Practices
		Posthumanisms Writ Minor
		Post-digital: Literary Writing “beyond The Screen”
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Part Four Economies, Precarities
	Chapter Twenty Post-digital Writing
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	Chapter Twenty-one Unwrapping The Ereader: On The Politics Of Electronic Reading Platforms
		The Format Wars
		There Is No Book
		Unwrapping The Ereader
		Review Format
			The Text
			Apparatus
			Platform
			Legal
			Hackability
		The Ideal Wrap
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	Chapter Twenty-two Scarcity And Abundance
		Property, Rivalry, And Commodity Fetishism
		Creative Labor And Remuneration
		Prestige Economies And Network Effects
		Reader Scarcities And Game Comparability
		The Haves And Have Nots
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	Chapter Twenty-three Relocating The Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material, And Mental Environments
		Introduction
		Accumulation Without Recognition
		The Publishing Event
		Algorithmic Accolades
		Current Trade In Knowledge Production
		A New New Deal For Capitalism And A Renewed Aesthetic For Digital Writing
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An Annotated Bibliography For Electronic Literature
Index