Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature

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    • Ensslin, Astrid

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Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature

Astrid Ensslin

(Elements in publishing and book culture)

Cambridge University Press, 2022

  • pbk.

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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.

目次

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

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