Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Joseph Tabbi is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Editor of the Electronic Book Review, a former President of the Electronic Literature Organization and his previous publications include Postmodern Sublime (1995), Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015).

Tabbi (English, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) has organized his foundational handbook in four parts that provide a needed framework for the work in this field. The first two sections—"Ends, Beginnings," "Poetics, Polemics"—work their way through the key insights and concepts developed since the inception of the field. The other two sections—"Materialities, Ontologies," "Economies, Precarities"—provide key essays on how electronic literature’s formats have helped to define contemporary digital life. Including an annotated bibliography of major texts in this field, this is an invaluable resource for those interested in where literature is going. Summing Up: Essential.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionJoseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USAEnds, BeginningsI Hold It Toward You: A Show of HandsShelley Jackson, The New School, USAOur Tools Make Us (And Our Literature) PostSteve Tomasula, University of Notre Dame, USALift This End: Electronic Literature in a Blue LightStuart Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAThe advent of aurature and the end of (electronic) literatureJohn Cayley, Brown University, USAPoetics, Polemics“your visit will leave a permanent mark”: Poetics in the Post-Digital EconomyDavin Heckman Winona State University, USA and James O'Sullivan University of Sheffield, UKLiterature and Netprov In Social Media, a Travesty, or, In Defense of PretensionRob Wittig, University of Minnesota Duluth, USANarrativityDaniel Punday, Mississippi State University, USACognitionDavid Ciccoricco, University of Otago, New ZealandExperimentalismÁlvaro Seiça, University of Bergen, NorwayWriting Under ConstraintManuel Portela, University of Coimbra, PortugalElectronic Literature and the Poetics of ContiguityMario Aquilina, University of Malta, MaltaCombination and Copulation: Making Lots of Little PoemsAden Evens, Dartmouth College, USAA Glitch Poetics: Reading of Speed Readers, Erica Scourti, Predictive Text, and Caroline BergvallNathan Jones, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Materialities, OntologiesFlat Logics, Deep Critique: Temporalities, Aesthetics and Ecologies in Electronic Literature on the WebAllison M. Schifani, University of Miami, USAImmanence, Inc: Algorithm, Flow, and the Displacement of the Real Brian Kim Stefans, University of California, Los Angeles, USAHypertextAstrid Ensslin University of Alberta, Canada and Lyle Skains Bangor University, UKInternet and Digital Textuality: A Close Reading of 10:01Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, Iranian Institute for Research and Development in Humanities (SAMT), IranOf Presence and Electronic LiteratureLuciana Gattass, University of Hong Kong, Hong KongPost-modern, Post-Human, Post-Digital Laura Shackelford, Rochester Institute of Technology, USAEconomies, PrecaritiesPost-Digital WritingFlorian Cramer, Rotterdam University, NetherlandsUnwrapping the eReader: On the Politics of Electronic Reading PlatformsDavid Roh, University of Utah, USAScarcity and AbundanceMartin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London, UKRelocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material and Mental EnvironmentsJoseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USAAnnotated Bibliography for Electronic LiteratureIndex