 Kristin Scott, MFA, A.M.
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Class Blog Website: http://cyberliterature.wordpress.com/
Class Web site: http://kristinscott.net/cyberlit/fall07/
Office Hours: by appointment
See Course Description
Class Reading & Assignment Schedule
* Denotes readings that can be found in your course packet.
Tuesday, September 4th
For Reference: print out and keep:
Paul F. Starrs; Julie Anderson, The Words of Cyberspace, Geographical Review, Vol. 87, No. 2,
Cyberspace and Geographical Space. (Apr., 1997), pp. 146-154.
Response Assignment #1 (due next class)
Tuesday, September 11th
Response Assignment #1 DUE online
Reading Due:
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* Campanella, Tommaso. (1637) Excerpt. The City of the Sun.
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Four chapters from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, 1818 (online):
Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 16
Response Assignment #2 (due next class)
Tuesday, September 18th
Response Assignment #2 DUE online
Reading Due:
Response Assignment #3 (due next class)
Tuesday, September 25th
Response Assignment #3 DUE online
Reading Due:
The Time Machine: Chapters I-IV, p.201-236.
Response Assignment #4 (due next class)
Tuesday, October 2nd
Response Assignment #4 DUE online
Reading Due:
- Gibson, William. (1984) Neuromancer. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group.
* Part Two * The Shopping Expedition, Section 3.
Response Assignment #5 (due next class)
Paper #1 Assigned / Due Tuesday, October 30th: Click on the assignment for details. You must post at least two paragraphs to the class blog by next week, discussing what you intend to write your paper on. The more details you give, the more feedback I will be able to give you.
Tuesday, October 9th
Paper # 1 Proposals DUE (a paragraph about what you propose to do your first essay on) - see details about essay.
Response Assignment #5 DUE online
Reading Due:
- * Fox, Gardener. (1965) The Hunter Out of Time. New York, NY: Ace Books, Inc.
Chapters I-II (p. 5-35).
Chapters VII-VIII (p. 97-119).
Response Assignment #6 (due next class) will be your essay proposal.
Tuesday, October 16th
Response Assignment #6 DUE online /
Paragraph or two about what you intend to write about due on the class blog.
Reading Due:
- * Stephenson, Neal. (1976/1992) Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books.
Chapters 1-5 (p. 1-44)
Response Assignment #7 (due next class)
Tuesday, October 23rd
Response Assignment #7 DUE online
Reading Due:
- Huxley, Aldous. (1932) Brave New World.
Chapter 2 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 10 is optional (very short - but would help flow from 9 to 11)
Tuesday, October 30th
PAPER #1 DUE in class!
Reading Due:
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* LeGuin, Ursula. (1985) Always Coming Home. Berkeley: University of California Press.
“Towards an Archeology of the Future,” p. 3-5.
“Time and the City,” p. 149-172.
“Newton Did Not Sleep Here,” p. 487
Response Assignment #8 (due next class)
Tuesday, November 6th
Response Assignment #8 DUE online
Reading Due:
- * Murray, Janet H. (1997) Hamlet and the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Chapter 1: Lord Burleigh’s Kiss (p. 13-26)
Chapter 3: From Additive to Expressive Form (p. 65-94).
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Moulthrop, Stuart. Pax. Read about Pax, then play it by clicking on either of the two faces on the page.
Response Assignment #9 (due next class)
Tuesday, November 13th
Response Assignment #9 DUE online
Reading Due:
- Winterson, Jeanette. (2001) The Powerbook. Vintage: London. Read pages 1-137.
Response Assignment #10 (due next class)
Tuesday, November 20th
Response Assignment #10 DUE online
Reading Due:
- * Wardrip-Fruin, N. and Harrigan, P. (2004) First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Cyberdrama, p. 1
Murray, Janet. From Game-Story to Cyberdrama, p. 1-10.
Response by Bryan Loyall, p. 1-9.
Paper #2 Assigned (due December 11th)
Response Assignment #11 (due next class)
Tuesday, November 27th
Response Assignment #11 DUE online
Reading Due:
- * Wardrip-Fruin, N. and Harrigan, P. (2004) First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Montfort, Nick. Interactive Fiction.
Response Assignment #12 (due next class)
Tuesday, December 4th
Response Assignment #12 DUE online
Reading Due:
My Body (click around and read at least five links)
Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl (read whole piece)
Tuesday, December 11th
PAPER #2 DUE in class!
Review of Semester
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