Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Stuart Moulthrop and Dene Grigar -- Entity and event : electronic literature in context / Stuart Moulthrop -- The many faces of Judy Malloy's Uncle Roger / Dene Grigar -- Coelacanth history : Uncle Buddy's phantom funhouse and the cybertext of things / Stuart Moulthrop -- Monsters and freaks : Patchwork girl and the new unreadable / Stuart Moulthrop -- The archives pertaining to Bill Bly, curator & translator / Dene Grigar -- Afterword: the Sappho syndrome, and other concerns in the preservation of born digital media / Dene Grigar.
Summary:
"Libraries were originally created to preserve, archive and (later) disseminate literature. Centuries since the first libraries were created we are faced with the same issues in a digital form. Transversals is based on an NEH-funded research project to create a strong critical foundation for the study of Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) techniques that can help to inform scholars interested in a study of born digital objects. Focusing on four foundational works of digital literature (Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Judy Malloy's Uncle Roger: The Blue Notebook, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, and John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse), Transversals investigates what knowledge of late-20th-century experimental writing is gained when we are able to examine early digital literary works in their intended context, through recorded encounters with the texts using original equipment"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.