— Seminars will be held in the lab in Somerville House 1310, on Mondays, and in Somerville House 3307 on Wednesdays. Classes highlighted in light blue are practicum sessions.

— Hyperlinks to online resources and texts are marked in red below; other sources, except where
     indicated, are available in the D. B. Weldon Library.

Readings:

Readings:

Ted Nelson, "About Project Xanadu."
http://xanadu.com/aboutxu.html

Wikipedia, s.v. "Hypertext."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Readings:

Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web "Introduction" (12-24)

Basic Page and Site Structures

Readings:

Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web Chs. 2-4 (47-82)
Basic Codes for HTML and XHTML pages

George P. Landow, "Hypertext as Collage-Writing" The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, ed. Peter Lunenfeld (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999) 151-71. (Available online through Weldon Library Catalogue)

Tables and Links

Readings:

Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web Chs. 7 & 14 (117-132; 215-240)

Style Sheets

Reading:

Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web Chs. 8-11 (133-196)

(In-class discussion)

Images, Frames, and Multimedia

Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web Chs. 5-6, 15, 17 (83-115; 241-262; 293-311)

D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. (First part only)

Seminar:

Alan Renear and Jerome J. McGann, "What is text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research"
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/hockey-renear2.html

Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 49-81. (Photocopy)

Katherine N. Hayles, "The Condition of Virtuality" The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, ed. Peter Lunenfeld (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999) 68-95. (Available online through Weldon Library Catalogue)

The Theory

1) Jerome McGann, "A Rationale of HyperText"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html

Jim Silcox

2) Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
http://bid.berkeley.edu/bidclass/readings/benjamin.html

Michelle Lockwood

Reading:

Donald H. Reiman, "'Versioning': The Presentation of Multiple Texts." Romantic Texts and Contexts. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. 167-80. (Photocopy)

Seminar:

The Prufrock Papers (U of Saskatchewan; Peter Stoicheff et al.)
http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/

The Practice

1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Complete Writings and Pictures (The Rossetti Archive; ed. Jerome G. McGann)
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/rossetti/

2) The Blake Archive (IATH; ed. Morris Eaves, Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi)
http://www.blakearchive.org/

Anne Morello

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation Electronic Objects," Text 14 (2002): 15-51. (Photocopy)

Seminars:

2) Jim Rosenberg, the mesh the predicates the chord trellis
http://www.well.com/user/jer/

Michael Joyce, "Hypertext Narrative"
http://noel.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf3/hypertext_narrative.html

Molly Travis, "Cybernetic esthetics, hypertext and the future of literature" Mosaic 29 (1996): 115-. (Available online through Weldon and ProQuest)

Jill Clapdorp

Seminars:

1) Shelley Jackson, "Patchwork Girl"
Details forthcoming.

Cynthia Hunt

2) Barbara Page, "Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext," Postmodern Culture 6.2 (1996) (Available online through Weldon and Project Muse)

Katherine N. Hayles, "Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis" Postmodern Culture 10.2 (2000) (Available online through Weldon and Project Muse)

Julia Flanders, "The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text," Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) 126-142.

Pana Bountis

Seminar:

1) TBA

Rachel Veira

Mike Higgins

Punday, Daniel. "Involvement, Interruption, and Inevitability: Melancholy as an Aesthetic Principle in Game Narratives" SubStance 33.3 (2004): 80-107. (Available online through Weldon and Project Muse)

1 Seminar (25%) -- Each student is responsible for one seminar presentation. Seminars will be scheduled for one of our non-practicum classes, and should take the readings for that class as a starting point. It is also permissible, where appropriate, to make reference to your own hypertext project. Seminars should be approximately a half hour in length. See Assignment Guidelines.

Essay (30%) -- This essay may build upon your seminar presentation, or can examine some aspect of the theoretical issues involved in the creation of a hypertext project; you may, if you choose, focus upon your own project as a case study. See Assignment Guidelines.

Hypertext Project (25%) See Assignment Guidelines.

Participation (20%)