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Chaucer from Manuscript to Print: The Social Text and the Critical Text
by A.S.G. Edwards [show abstract]
As Chaucer's works move from manuscript to print we see the ways in which his own oeuvre is reconstituted. This essay examines some of the implications of media change involved in this movement, both in relation to particular texts, the canon in general a
Interpreting Codicology: Re-visions of the Divine Comedy in the Codex Altona
by Michelle R. Wright [show abstract]
Focusing on the intentional and accidental features of medieval manuscripts, this essay explores how the Codex Altona draws attention to the page as a medium of representation and to the interpretive role of illustrations. The reader's moral progress is s
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Theater: Negotiating Meaning and Technology in Performance
by R. John Rice and Paul M. Malone [show abstract]
Building on a historical perspective of theater as a written and performed medium, the authors examine the directions that theater might take with the development of "virtual reality" technologies. Documenting the potentials and shortcomings of V. R. with
Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext
by Stuart Moulthrop [show abstract]
The recent advent of hypertext, or electronic "non-sequential writing," poses significant challenges for literary artists and critics. There is something seductive and inviting about this medium, but also something that inspires resistance. This essay loo
Artif[r]acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative and the Ideology of the Visual
by William Anthony Nericcio [show abstract]
Arguing that the mestizo dynamics of comic books (one part line art, one part cinema, one part prose fiction) demand critical scrutiny, this essay examines provocative examples from the world of "graphic narratives," with particular focus on the work of G
Coming Attractions: Theater and the Performance of Television
by Elizabeth Klaver [show abstract]
Coming Attractions explores a world of images, commodities and consumer desire by following the rise of a serial killer to celebrity status. This essay argues that, by enacting and contesting televisual discourse, the play is able to reconsider the place
Orality and Literacy as Gender-Supporting Structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
by Mario Klarer [show abstract]
Focusing on The Handmaid's Tale, this essay explores the way that concepts of orality and literacy are gender-coded, and the way that aspects of orality can be politically cultivated to prevent the destabilizing potential of written discourse.
The Technology of Quotation: William Gaddis's J R and Contemporary Media
by Joseph Tabbi [show abstract]
The convergence of technology and postmodern theory provides an opportunity to reconsider the distinctive esthetic of William Gaddis. His work opens a new representational space that of the media of corporate connection and reproduction through the figura
Literature and Media Change: A Selective Multidisciplinary Bibliography
by Joseph Donatelli and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young [show abstract]
