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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: Das Epos der Maschine

URL: http://www.kunst.im.internett.de/epos-der-maschine/edmdiemaschine.html#sound/

Description: Urs Schreiber’s Java-based German Internet opus Das Epos der Maschine ("Machine Epic") epitomizes the control of the "machine" over its user both practically and (meta-) theoretically. As the title suggests, the text regards itself as a poem of epic dimensions, i.e. poetic narrative that acts as a symbol of an entire national or, as in the case of the Internet, virtual paradigm. In other words, Schreiber positions his work in the tradition of the great ethnic and religious epics (e.g. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Nibelungenlied and Milton’s Paradise Lost). By the same token, it follows in the tradition of concrete poetry, which critically and playfully reflects on language itself as well as its inextricable determination by the medium in which it appears. The Epos is a joint venture. Text and programming were done by Urs Schreiber, the graphics by Kai Jelinek and Cesare Wosko, the photographs by Claudia König, and the sound by Die with Dignity. (...) Read the entire elit work article by Astrid Ensslin at: http://directory.eliterature.org/node/314

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Subject:   poetry fiction cybertext sound epic machine control,  multimodal ,  narrative

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