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Electronic Literature: Individual Works

Collected by: Electronic Literature Organization

Archived since: Aug, 2007

Description:

This collection consists of sites that include works of electronic literature: works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. This collection includes individual works of electronic literature and collections of works by a single author, as opposed to collections of works by multiple authors.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities individual works electronic literature individual authors

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Title: The Jew's Daughter

URL: http://www.artic.edu/~jmorrissey/tjsd/

Description: "The Jew's Daughter" is an interactive, non-linear, multivalent narrative. A hypertext, but one that transforms the text (rather than just linking from one stable text to another). As soon as the reader moves the mouse over highlighted keywords (links), segments of a page replace one another fluidly. While always remaining syntactically and semantically intact, passages are replaced by a new text within a static rectangular text-space. The work's content corresponds to the unstable form: Characters, for example, are not fixed identities; they can be, by turns, contemporary and historical. The algorithmic text generation calls on readers to explore a text that changes with the addition or deletion of passages at random throughout the narrative. By placing authors and readers in direct relation to machine-generated text, this piece has helped ground debates on electronic literature. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   hypertext collaboration interactive,  generative text ,  html/dhtml

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