Newsletter
JULY '99
2/1999 (1.Jg. /
Nr. 2) - ISSN 1617-6901
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Creating,
selling, and evaluating Hyperfiction -
Interview with Mark Bernstein
(English)
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Bernstein
might be considered the Gutenberg of
Hypertext, and his company Eastgate Systems
is considered the "primary source for serious
hypertext". Roberto Simanowski talked to
Bernstein about the present and future of
hypertext, and about the task of its
evaluation and publishing.
www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/17-Juli-99/Interview_Bernstein.htm
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"Twilight, a
Symphony" by Michael Joyce - Review
(English)
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Susana
Pajares Tosca, editor of the Spanish
online-journal "Hipertulia" reviews
Michael
Joyces "Twilight, a Symphony" and points out
the splendid language
and structure of this multimedial
hyperfiction, which is telling a story about
an American, who hides with his son (his
mother has the custody), and a Polish
political refugee, incurably ill and looking
for Doctor Twilight, who practises
euthanasia. "Upon this basic structure, Joyce
builds an impressive scaffolding made up of
voices,memories and thoughts that tells us
about the eternal human themes, death and the
search for the self."
www.dichtung-digital.de/Tosca/15-Juli-99/twilight.htm
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"Vom
Buch zum
Internet?"
by Nina
Hautzinger
- Review (German)
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Anja
Rau's review about Nina Hautzinger's
bachelor-thesis "Vom Buch zum Internet? Eine
Analyse der Auswirkungen hypertextueller
Strukturen auf Text und Literatur" critics
the lack of theoretical reflections, and
contextualization of the texts under
cosideration, and praises the courage to
introduce the first extensive approach to
digital literature.
www.dichtung-digital/Rau/13-Juli-99/Rau_Hautzinger.htm
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Der
Ruhm des Banalen, Panoptismus, Datenmüll
und Prostitution
(German)
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An
essay by Roberto Simanowski about web-diaries
in Europe and America, about the exhibit,
commercial, and opposional aspects of this
deliberat exposure to the Big Brother's eys.
Spanish readers may look for the Spanish
transaltion in Hipertulia
(http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/diarios/brief_03.htm)
www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/10-Juli-99/brief_03.htm
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Interview
with Oliver Gassner (German)
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Christiane
Heibach's Interview mit Oliver Gassner,
coordinator of the Ettlinger
Internet-Literature-Competition 1999, talks
about the competition, the criteria for
evaluation, the characteristics of
net-literature, and the issue of their
commercialisation.
www.dichtung-digital.de/Heibach/8-Juli-99/Interview_Ettlingen.htm
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Susanne
Berkenhegers "Zeit für die Bombe" - Review
(German)
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Roberto
Simanowski's review
on Susanne Berkenhegers "Zeit für die
Bombe" (Pegasus-Pricewinner 1997) introduces
this fanny hyperfiction, where Veronika
brings a bomb to Moscow, where Vladimir wants
to rescue the Russian soul. The review
describes Berkenheger's refreshing play with
the reader, who is first forced into the role
of a murderer, but then remains
unpunished.
www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/2-Juli-99/brief1_0_x.htm
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