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April 23, 2007

ELC v1 in the Inky

by Nick Montfort · , 1:02 pm

The Electronic Literature Collection, volume one is the topic of Katie Haegele’s column in the Philadelphia Inquirer this week. She writes

But wouldn’t it be nice to get our arms around this thing, to get a sense of the full breadth and scope of what’s called digital literature?

The 60 works in the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection (ELC) (http://collection.eliterature.org) – edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland – show the wide range of forms that exist within the genre.

and describes the keyword index and four of the pieces included in volume one of the Collection in detail.

One Response to “ELC v1 in the Inky”

scott Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Nice piece — good quotes, Nick.