Alt Syllabus

ALT INTRO TO E-LIT SYLLABUS

UCLA 2017 ENGL 116B

Collectively compiled & appended to the "official" syllabus, 10.26.17.

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LCS ~ Unit: The Role of Social Media in Preserving Poetry

                     Critical Readings: Digital Poets: Can Social Media Save Poetry (Natalie Zfat) [[1]]; Hello 'Poetry' [[2]]

                     Creative Works:    Top 10 Poetic Tweets (LW Lundquist) [[3]]; Instagram: @poemsporn_ [[4]]

LR - Textualities and Interactive Fiction

Critical Readings : Nick Montfort "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" [[5]]

Creative Works : Stevens & Montfort [[6]] Personal Fav: Field of Dreams

QG ~ Writing in Electronic Age

                     Critical Readings: The End of Books (Robert Coover) [[7]]

                     Creative Works:   Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh Carroll, Robert Coover, et. al.) [[8]]

a.k. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction (Nick Monfort)  [[9]]

                     Creative Works:   Photopia by Adam Cadre (1998) ( [[10]]

.jk. – Consequences of Disappearing Electronic vs. Print Literature

                     Critical Readings: One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature (Marjorie C. Luesebrink) [[11]] 
                     Vanishing Letters in Text-based Digital Installations (Janez Strehovec) [[12]]
   
                     
                     Creative Work: Share a secret – One Time [[13]]

I.B. Interactive Fiction

                     ""Critical Work:"" Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (JENNIFER S. ROUDABUSH) [[14]]
                     
                     ""Creative Works:"" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky) [[15]]