Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
Part of Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
- Author: Astrid Ensslin, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
- Date Published: March 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108828888
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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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- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108828888
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 178 x 127 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.146kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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