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1	Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization more books like this by Professor George P Landow George Landow's widely acclaimed "Hypertext" was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as well as unprecedented control of what and how they read. In hypermedia, ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $16.68! \| SVS
2	Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction more books like this by Larry McCaffery (Editor) The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer". Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, this study argues, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age more books like this by Eliza T Dresang see all copies from $18.60! new only from $89.43! \| first editions
4	Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity more books like this by Jason Ohler, David Thornburg (Foreword by) Jason Ohler, well-known education technology teacher, writer, keynoter, futurist, and Apple Distinguished Educator, guides educators on how to effectively bring digital storytelling into the classroom. The author links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy and offers teachers ways to: o Combine curriculum ... see all copies from $33.95! new only from $33.95! \| SVS
5	Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology more books like this by George P. Landow, George P. Landlow George Landow's "Hypertext" brought together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as well as unprecedented control of what and how they read. In hypermedia, Landow saw a strikingly literal embodiment of many major points of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!
6	Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature more books like this by Professor Espen J Aarseth Can computer games be treated as literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse - novels, films, television series - is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it necessary to define a new aesthetics of cyborg textuality? In this book, the author explores ... see all copies from $12.34! new only from $12.34! \| SVS
7	Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web more books like this by Jerome J McGann This volume describes and explains the fundamental changes that are taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the humanities - its theories of textuality and communication - that are being forced by developments in ... see all copies from $18.89! new only from $25.57! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology more books like this by Joseph Tabbi (Editor), Michael Wutz (Editor) The twelve original essays, published here for the first time, are the work of distinguished scholar-critics on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects only recently put on the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $4.97!
9	Michael Crichton: A Critical Companion more books like this by Elizabeth A Trembley Until now, Michael Crichton's many readers have had nowhere to turn for more information on one of America's most popular novelists. This companion features clear analyses of Crichton's life and literary influences, as well as chapters on each of his 13 novels to date. It should help Crichton's readers to learn more about how significant events in ... see all copies from $5.33! new only from $50.26! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States more books like this by Leo Marx Leo Marx is one of the major critics of American culture, technology, and literature, and his widely influential The Machine in the Garden (Oxford, 1964) is a classic of American literary criticism. In The Pilot and the Passenger, he brings together essays written over four decades that explore the interplay among literature, technology, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture more books like this by Michael Joyce {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\ftech\fcharset0 Symbol;}{\f2\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f3\fswiss\fcharset0 Courier New;}{\f4\ftech\fcharset0 Wingdings;}}{\colortbl\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue255;\red0\green255\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green0 ... see all copies from $3.32! new only from $30.01! \| first editions
12 view cover	Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics more books like this by Michael Joyce In "Of Two Minds," noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of "Afternoon: A Story," which the "New York Times Book Review" termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all ... see all copies from $3.53! new only from $14.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System more books like this by Joseph Tabbi (Editor), Rone Shavers (Editor) In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis' collected nonfiction, his final novel, and Jonathan Franzen's lengthy attack on him in "The New Yorker", a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis's legacy. In a review in "The London Review of Books", critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to ... see all copies from $20.12! new only from $20.12! \| SVS
14 view cover	Cinematograph of Words: Literature, Technique, and Modernization in Brazil more books like this by Flora Sussekind, Paulo Henriques Britto (Translator) This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective as pre- or post- something or other, rather than in ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $5.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Writing Machines more books like this by N Katherine Hayles, Anne Burdick Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to ... see all copies from $7.70! new only from $7.70! \| SVS
16	Victorians and the machine; the literary response to technology more books like this by Herbert L. Sussman see all copies from $5.00! first editions
17 view cover	Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology more books like this by Carrie Noland Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $40.24!
18 view cover	Literature and Science as Modes of Expression more books like this by Frederick Amrine see all copies from $30.90! new only from $46.26! \| SVS
19 view cover	Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology more books like this by Professor George P Landow (Editor) "In this insightful and readable volume, Landow explores the relationship between contemporary literary and social theory and the latest advances in computer software."--Voice Literary Supplement. "A useful book for understanding the effect technology is having on scholarship."--Semiotic Review of Books. "Landow 's]... presentation is measured, ... see all copies from $1.99! SVS
20 view cover	Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century more books like this by Mark W Roche Not just another jeremiad against prevailing '-isms' and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $32.38! \| SVS
21 view cover	Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction more books like this by Dr. Gary Westfahl The first comprehensive critical study of hard science fiction, this book reveals how the term "hard science fiction" originated, and how arguments about its range and nature have unfolded. Westfahl shows that hard science fiction is generally characterized by the author's extreme concern for scientific accuracy and logic. Identifying two ... see all copies from $52.00! new only from $75.00!
22 view cover	Literature, Media, Information Systems more books like this by Friedrich A Kittler, John Johnston, phy (Editor) This volume is a collection of public writings and insights of the German poststructuralist, Friedrich A. Kittler. It merges the discourse of literature, war and technology into a unified theme. His research results in a vision of the future in which the distinction between mediums is erased. The introduction by John Johnston explicates the ... see all copies from $20.02! new only from $34.12!
23 view cover	Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism more books like this by Yoshiki Tajiri "Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body" is a study of the representation of the body in Samuel Beckett's work (both novels and plays), specifically focused on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', this book aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural ... see all copies from $36.15! new only from $36.15! \| SVS
24 view cover	Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance more books like this by Klaus Benesch Literary critics have long regarded the rejection of technology as a distinguishing feature of American Romanticism. Yet as Klaus Benesch shows in this insightful study, the attitude of antebellum writers toward the advent of the machine age was far more complicated than often supposed. Although fraught with tension, the relationship between ... see all copies from $25.52! new only from $55.09! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Reality more books like this by Sharona Ben-Tov ""The Artificial Paradise" shows how science fiction is a powerful purveyor of cultural myths rooted in the history of the West, myths that shape American attitudes toward nature, technology, and the pursuit of happiness. Sharona Ben-Tov posits the theory that science fiction is an American "national mode of thinking" which seeks to replace nature ... see all copies from $9.42! new only from $9.61! \| first editions

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