The course is intended for students looking for a basic understanding of literature and arts expressed through digital technology. To provide an introduction to hypertext literature and hypermedia arts, the course will begin with a demonstration of electronic works derived from such websites as "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Wonderfully Absurd Temple ,"  and "VISPO."   The study will explore a diversity of forms of expression embedded in electronic works by Michael Joyce, Shelley Jackson, Stuart Moulthrop, Charles Deemer, Rick Pryll, Talan Memmott, et al.  In addition, part of the meeting time will be assigned to the construction of a research website.

    Students will be responsible for two in-class presentations, the completion of a website, and a seminar paper on a topic of his/her choosing. The final grade will be composed as follows: active participation, 20%, two presentations, 20%, website construction, 20%, final paper, 40%

Syllabus

1. Introduction, "The Garden of Forking Paths," demo,

*internship provided

2. Pryll, Richard L.  "Lies"; Moulthrop, Stuart.  Hegirascope 2

3. Dillemuth, Jay and Alex Cory.  Holo-X; Moulthrop, Stuart.  Reagan Library

4. Andrews, Jim. Vispo; Waber, Dan.  "Strings"; 

5. Brandon;  Lynn, Vicki.  Guardians of the Millennium; Blair, David.  Waxweb

6. Mez and Talan Memmott.  "Sky Scratchez," "Lux." 

7. 曹志漣，《一九九九想像書》；蘇紹連、李順興，《美麗新文字》

8. The Neverending Tale, Muds

9. Joyce, Michael.  Afternoon, a Story (disc).  Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl (disc).  Moulthrop, Stuart.  Victory Garden.   Deemer, Charles.  The Last Song of Violeta Parra.

10. Mid-term

11.  李順興，〈數位形式美學初探：以美國網路文學為例（1990-1999）〉；〈美麗新世界〉

12.  Landow, P. George.  Chapter 1, Hypertext 2 (pt); Bolter, J. David.  Chapter 2, Writing Space (pt)

13.  Lanham, Richard.  Chapter 2, The Electronic Word (pt); Menezes, Philadelpho. "The Interactive Poems" 

14.  Aarseth, J. Espen.  Chapter 1 & 3, Cybertext (pt)

15.  Bernstein, Mark.  "Patterns of Hypertext."

16.  Ryan, Marie-Laure.  "Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Text," Cyberspace Textuality (pt); Hayles, N. Ketherine.  "Artificial Life and Literary Culture," Cyberspace Textuality (pt)

17. Review

18. Final

Notes

*Unless specified, the required readings are all available on line. 

Websites, Discs, Prints, see

          http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~sslee/edu/list.htm

*The schedule is subject to change.