Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature / Astrid Ensslin.
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...
Uniform Title: | Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture.
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture.
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Physical Description: | 134 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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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. |
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Call Number: | Z480.E43 E67 2022 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781108828888 1108828884 |
ISSN: | 2514-8524 |