6.0133 Rs: Hypertext; Postmodernism (5/115)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 17:35:40 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0133. Tuesday, 14 Jul 1992.


(1) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 19:04 EST (33 lines)
From: "Simon A. Rakov, Pew Intern in Writing"
Subject: HT bibliographies

(2) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 20:09:06 EDT (33 lines)
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0131 Hypertext; Postmodernism

(3) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 20:14:48 EDT (12 lines)
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>

(4) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 15:07 BST (20 lines)
From: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Subject: postmodernism tutorial

(5) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 15:32:04 EDT (17 lines)
From: Alan A Green <agreen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: 6.0131 Qs: Postmodernism

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 19:04 EST
From: "Simon A. Rakov, Pew Intern in Writing"
Subject: HT bibliographies


Sorry to post this to the list, but the e-mail address for Jean-Michel
Boulay didn't work. Working on a HT (hypertext) bibliography myself,
but it's far from complete, although up-to-date. It lists available
electronic material. Sources for bibs of print material might include:

Bolter, Jay David. _Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the
History of Writing._ Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991.

Landow, George P. _Hypertext_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
1992.

Nielsen, Jakob. _Hypertext and Hypermedia_. Boston: Academic Press,
1990.

Those three should get you started, if you haven't seen all of them
already. The IRIS bibliography was also good the last time I looked at
it, but it's a few years old now.


Simon Rakov


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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 20:09:06 EDT
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0131 Qs: E-Mail; CALL; Calico; Hypertext; Postmodernism

Re: queries of 7/13/92 on hypertext and on postmodernism:

Jean-Michel Boulay, you should take a look at Terry Harpold's bibliography
of hypertext-related materials, available from PMC-TALK@NCSUVM (or, on
internet, PMC-TALK@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU) under the filename HYPER TEXT. Send
a mail message to LISTSERV@NCSUVM or LISTSERV@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU with the
one and only line "GET HYPER TEXT PMC-TALK F=MAIL" (no quotation marks in
the message). Terry has, I believe revised this bibliography since he put out
the version you will receive, but his address is listed in the bibliography
and you can get in touch with him directly concerning subsequent versions.

Jim Cerny: Two files from PMC-TALK might be of interest to you. The first
is called POMO DEF-1 and contains a preliminary definition of postmodernism.
The second is called SMURTHWA BIB and is a bibliography of texts concerning
postmodernism. Use the instructions given above to retrieve these files,
substituting the appropriate filenames in your request. If you'd like to
subscribe to PMC-TALK, or to the journal _Postmodern Culture_, write to
PMC@NCSUVM or PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU and ask to be added to the list. Both
are free. _Postmodern Culture_ distributes peer-reviewed essays on
contemporary literature, theory, and culture, three times a year; we have
six back issues available now. PMC-TALK is a moderated discussion group,
and its topics are decided by its members. PMC's most recent call for
book reviewers included a title that might be of interest to you:

Doherty, Joseph, Elspeth Graham and Mo Malek. _Postmodernism and the
Social Sciences_. New York: St. Martin's, 1992.

John Unsworth
Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 20:14:48 EDT
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>

In my response to Jim Cerny's query about postmodernism, I should have
added that, for those who wish to educate themselves, there are several
syllabi available from PMC-TALK, including Gary Lee Stonum's syllabus
for a course on postmodernism, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's syllabus
for a course on the aesthetics of everyday life, and my own syllabus for
a course on art and mass culture.

John Unsworth
Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 15:07 BST
From: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Subject: postmodernism tutorial

In reply to Jim Cerny's request for a tutorial on post modernism I would
recommend he try the campus novels of David Lodge ('Small World' etc.). In
particular, pp. 40-41 of 'Nice Work' 1988 Penguin edition, has a nice short
piece on Derrida. The novel contains numerous attempts on the part of Robyn
Penrose, Eng. Lit. lecturer to explain her craft to Vic Wilcox, industrialist;
one of my favourite passages (though on semiotics, not post-modernism) concerns
the deconstruction of the notorious Silk Cut ads. (pp. 220-24), though you'd
have to have seen a UK Silk Cut ad. to follow it.

Marcus Banks (Banks@uk.ac.ox.vax)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
51 Banbury Road
OXFORD OX2 6PE
UK


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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 15:32:04 EDT
From: Alan A Green <agreen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: 6.0131 Qs: E-Mail; CALL; Calico; Hypertext; Postmodernism (5/72)

In response to Jim Cerny's request for an introduction to postmodernism
I can recommend the following:

Jencks, Charles. _What is Post-modernism? 3rd rev. enl. ed. London:
Academy Editions; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

This work focuses primarily on art and architecture, but some references
to other fields are also included.

Alan Green
Music & Dance Library
Ohio State University
green.200@osu.edu