Book Page and Computer Screen: The Literary Work as a Physical Object

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Class: Wednesday 9:00-10:50 and Friday 9:00-9:50 - Stevenson-Lawson 96

Office: UC 383

Office Hours: Monday 2:00-3:00 (UC 181: Committee on Undergraduate Studies office); Wednesday 11:00-12:00 (UC 383); Friday 10:00-11:00 (UC 383)

Phones: 679-2111 ext. 5831 (office), 661-3403 (English Dept.), or 672-8779

email: mgroden@acm.org

course Web page

Texts:

--Print
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Ed. James Kinsley. Oxford World's Classics. 1970, 1990.
Jorge Luis Borges. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. New Directions, 1964.
James Joyce. Ulysses. Ed. Jeri Johnson. Oxford World's Classics. 1993.
Myron C. Tuman, ed. Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
+ a few photocopied articles, available in Pat Dibsdale's office (UC 180) (marked with *)

--Electronic (all available on the UWO network)
Carolyn Guyer. Quibbling. Electronic hypertext. Eastgate Systems, 1992.
Shelley Jackson. Patchwork Girl. Electronic hypertext. Eastgate Systems, 1995.
Michael Joyce. Afternoon: A Story. Electronic hypertext. Eastgate Systems, 1987.
Storyspace. Hypertext authoring software. Eastgate Systems.
+ some other hypertexts and electronic writings from the World Wide Web

Assignments
1) 2500-word essay due at the end of the course (April 7) 40%
2) hypertext writing exercise (March 19) 20%
3) course journal (due April 7) 15%
4) three short in-class reports on the hypertext fictions (Feb. 3, March 10, March 31) 15%
5) participation and attendance 10%

Jane Austen and James Joyce on the Internet
Jane Austen's Writings (The Republic of Pemberley)
Pride and Prejudice HTML Hypertext edition
ASCII downloadable Zip text
ASCII text divided into chapters

Joyce Web sites: Michael Groden, "Flying By the Net: James Joyce in Cyberspace"
ASCII text of Ulysses - look for "Ulysses" symbol at bottom of page

Schedule

Jan. 6 (W) Introduction
Jan. 8 (F) Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel" (in Labyrinths)
Jan. 13 (W) James Joyce, Ulysses, episodes 1 and 4-6 (pp. 3-23 and 53-111)
Jan. 15 (F) Jerome McGann, extract from The Textual Condition (*)
Jan. 20 (W) James Joyce, Ulysses, episodes 7-9 (pp. 112-209)
Jan. 22 (F) George Landow, "Hypertext, Metatext, and the Electronic Canon" (in Tuman)
Jan. 27 (W) James Joyce, Ulysses, episodes 11 and 15 (pp. 245-279 and 408-565)
Jan. 29 (F) Prototype: "James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia" (class meets in UC 12) + Ted Nelson, "Opening Hypertext" (in Tuman)
Feb. 3 (W) Carolyn Guyer, Quibbling
[Feb. 5 (F) - no class]
Feb. 10 (W) James Joyce, Ulysses, episodes 17-18 (pp. 619-732)
Feb. 12 (F) Robert Bringhurst, Writer-in-Residence - guest lecture on typography (class meets in UC 12): readings: from Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, 2nd ed, (Vancouver and Point Roberts, WA: Hartley and Marks, 1997), Chapter 1, "The Grand Design" (pp. 17-24); Chapter 2, "Rhythm and Proportion" (pp. 25-44); + "Historical Synopsis" (pp. 12-16) (*)
Feb. 17 (W) Walter Ong, extract from Orality and Literacy (*)
[Feb. 19 (F) - no class]

Mar. 3 (W) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (print + Internet HTML version)
Mar. 5 (F) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice + Pamela McCorduck, "How We Knew, How We Know, How We Will Know" (in Tuman)
Mar. 10 (W) Michael Joyce, Afternoon + Jay David Bolter, "Literature in the Electronic Writing Space" (in Tuman) + introduction to Storyspace writing exercise
Mar. 12 (F) Michael Joyce, Afternoon
Mar. 17 (W) Michael Joyce, Afternoon
Mar. 19 (F) discussion of Storyspace writing exercise
Mar. 24 (W) discussion of Storyspace writing exercise + Jane Yellowlees Douglas, "'How Do I Stop This Thing?': Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives" (*); Silvio Gaggi, extract from From Text to Hypertext, Chapter 4: "Hyperrealities and Hypertexts" (*); Richard Lanham, "Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Practice, and Property" (in Tuman)
Mar. 26 (F) finish Douglas, Gaggi, Lanham
Mar. 31 (W) Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl
[Apr. 2 (F) - no class (Good Friday)]
Apr. 7 (W) hypertext Web sites

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