TY - BOOK ID - 61272784 TI - Traversals AU - Moulthrop, Stuart AU - Grigar, Dene PY - 2017 SN - 0262339021 0262339013 9780262339018 0262035979 9780262035972 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - Digital preservation KW - Hypertext literature KW - History. KW - Preservation KW - DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General KW - HUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies KW - Digital literature (Hypertext literature) KW - Electronic literature (Hypertext literature) KW - Literature KW - Computer files KW - Digital curation KW - Digital media KW - Electronic preservation KW - Preservation of digital information KW - Preservation of materials KW - Conservation and restoration KW - Library automation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61272784 AB - Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance of these works--created on floppy disks, in Apple's defunct HyperCard, and on other early systems and platforms--not only puts important electronic literary work out of reach but also signals the fragility of most works of culture in the digital age. In response, Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop have been working to document and preserve electronic literature, work that has culminated in the Pathfinders project and its series of "Traversals"--Video and audio recordings of demonstrations performed on historically appropriate platforms, with participation and commentary by the authors of the works. In Traversals, Moulthrop and Grigar mine this material to examine four influential early works: Judy Malloy's Uncle Roger (1986), John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse (1993), Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl (1995) and Bill Bly's We Descend (1997), offering "deep readings" that consider the works as both literary artifacts and computational constructs. For each work, Moulthrop and Grigar explore the interplay between the text's material circumstances and the patterns of meaning it engages and creates, paying attention both to specificities of media and purposes of expression. ER -