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Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-108-82888-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2022
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This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781108828888
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-108-82888-8
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2022
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
  • Serie: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 132 g
  • Seiten: 75
  • Format (B x H x T): 127 x 178 x 8 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. Introduction; 2. Between Paradigms: EQRH as Digi-Modernist 'Little Magazine'; 3. EQRH Works; 4. Conclusion; Appendix: Technical details of individual EQRH works.