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Study Materials



Readings

Course Text

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, and Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.

Literary Texts

Lightman, Alan. Einstein’s Dreams. New York: Warner Books, 1994, pp. 8-27, 38-42, 61-65, 75-84, 112-116, 123-127, 133-137, 153-157.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2002 (excerpts). (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. New York: Penguin Books, 1999 (excerpts).

Queneau, Raymond. Cent Mille Milliard de Poems. Paris: Kickshaws, 1983.

Dante. "Inferno." In The Divine Comedy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. (Download  a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Queneau, Raymond. Exercises in Style. 2nd ed. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981.

Perec, Georges. Life, A user’s manual. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1987.

Perec, Georges. 53 days. London: Harvill, 1992.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. London: J. Calder. 1985.

Cortázar, Julio. Hopscotch. London: Panther, 1998.

Danielewski, Mark. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

Pavic, Milorad, et al. Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Hoffmann, E. T. A. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. London: Penguin Books, 1999.

Schmidt, Arno. Zettels Traum. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2002, Zettel 3-10 and sound recording.

Hypertext Fiction

Joyce, Michael. Afternoon, a story. 5th ed. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1995.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees. I Have Said Nothing. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1994.

Moulthrop, Stuart. Victory Garden. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1999.

Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1995.

Greco, Diane. Cyborg: Engineering The Body Electric. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1995.

Strickland, Stephanie. True North. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate Systems, 1997.

StorySpace 2

ELIZA

ZORK

Films/Videos/Interactive Movies/Projects

Ramis, Harold. Groundhog Day. 1993.

Howitt, Peter. Sliding Doors. 1998.

Nolan, Christopher. Memento. 2000.

Figgis, Mike. Time Code. 2000.

Ruttmann, Walter. Berlin: Symphony of the City. 1927.

Vertov, Dziga. Man with a Movie Camera. 1929.
 
Greenaway, Peter. Prospero's Books. 1991.

Greenaway, Peter. Dante’s Inferno. 1993.

Recordings of Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee.

Furstenberg, Gilberte. A la Rencontre de Philippe. 1993.

Crocker, Ellen, and Kurt Fendt. Berliner sehen. 1999.

Morgenstern, Douglas. No Recuerdo.

Tykwer, Tom. Run Lola Run. 1998.

Audio Works

Ruttmann, Walter. Weekend. 1992.

Ruttmann, Walter. Remixes. 1998.

Wühr, Paul. Soundseeing Munich. 1987.

Fontana, Bill. Cologne-Kyoto Sound-Bridge. 1993.

Theoretical Texts on Narrative and Interactivity

Iser, Wolfgang. "The Reading Process." In The Implied Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974, pp. 274-294.

Manovich, Lev. "Database." In The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 213-243.

Eco, Umberto. "Intentio Lectoris." In The Limits of Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 44-63.

Goldenberg, Robert. "Talmud." In Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, edited by Barry W. Holtz. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984, pp. 129-151.

Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author." In Image, Music, Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1988, pp. 142-148.

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." The Atlantic Monthly 176, 1 (1945), 101-108.

Nelson, Theodore H. Literary Machines. Swarthmore, Pa.: T. H. Nelson, 1981.

Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. New York, Free Press, 1997.

Jenkins, Henry. "Game Design as Narrative Architecture" (and other texts). In First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.

Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Net Fiction & Games

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