Required Texts:

Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (print; Wheelock)
Robert Coover, "The Babysitter" (print; reader)
J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country (print; Wheelock)
Thomas Pynchon, "Entropy" (print; reader); The Crying of Lot 49 (print; Wheelock)
Gertrude Stein, "Matisse," "Picasso," Tender Buttons extracts; "Composition as Explanation" (print; handout)

Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story (electronic; online or at Jones Media Center)
Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden (electronic; Jones Media Center)
Judy Malloy, its name was Penelope (electronic; Jones Media Center)
Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (electronic; Jones Media Center)
Mark Amerika, Grammatron (link)
M.D. Coverley, Califia (electronic; Jones Media Center)
Talan Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia (link)
Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, My Name Is Captain, Captain (electronic; Jones Media Center)

Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic (selected essays; Wheelock)
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (Wheelock)
Essays in the reader, available at Wheelock (see weekly assignments)
Essays online, linked from the web page (see weekly assignments)

Film: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, dir; A. Robbe-Grillet, script)

Other hyperfictions available at Jones Media Center:
Deena Larson, Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts
Carolyn Guyer, Quibbling
Richard Holeton, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
Michael Joyce, Twilight: A Symphony

Papers and Presentations:

1. Two class presentations on (two) different texts (10% each).

2. One short paper based on one of the reports (4-5 pages); due the week after the presentation (15%)

3. A long paper (15-20 pages), due at the end of term (40%)

4. Written responses to the critical reading, due in class the day we discuss the text (15%)

5. Participation in online (Blackboard) discussion (10%)

6. Optional: short hypertext fiction

Class Participation:
This course will be run as much as possible as a workshop. Regular class attendance is required; student presentations and participation are central to the goals of the course.