Joseph Tabbi | |
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| Born | 4 May 1960 |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University |
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| Institutions | University of Illinois at Chicago , University of Bergen |
Joseph Tabbi (1960-) is a US academic living in Norway,and is a full professor at the University of Bergen. He is a literary scholar and theorist,notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature. [1]
Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines:Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon." [2] Tabbi joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago,and then in 2019 he moved to the University of Bergen to take a position as Professor of English Literature. [3] In 2023 he became one of the Principal Investigators of the Center for Digital Narrative .
He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis, [4] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business:On the Life and Work of William Gaddis [5] [6] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature [7] (2017),Post-Digital:Critical Debates from electronic book review [8] (2020),and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing.[ citation needed ] His other works include Cognitive Fictions [9] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime:Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk [10] (1996).
Tabbi edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review [11] (ebr),which he founded with Mark Amerika. Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL),an "open access,non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases,archives,and institutional programs" in the humanities. [12]
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction.
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013.
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. This style of experimental literature emerged strongly in the United States in the 1960s through the writings of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth. Postmodernists often challenge authorities, which has been seen as a symptom of the fact that this style of literature first emerged in the context of political tendencies in the 1960s. This inspiration is, among other things, seen through how postmodern literature is highly self-reflexive about the political issues it speaks to.
Joseph Prince McElroy is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is noted for his long postmodern novels such as Women and Men.
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The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a nonprofit organization "established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature". It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of and criticism of electronic literature, hosts online events and has published a series of collections of electronic literature.
Patchwork Girl or a Modern Monster by Mary/Shelly and Herself is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in Storyspace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction.
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Cary Wolfe is an American academic. He teaches English at Rice University. He has written on topics from American poetry to bioethics. He has been a voice in debates on animal studies and advocates a version of the posthumanist position. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Posthumanities Series. He was born and grew up in North Carolina.
Steven Moore is an American author and literary critic. Best known as the primary authority on the novelist William Gaddis, he is the author of the two-volume study The Novel: An Alternative History.
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Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German digital culture scholar, and Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at the University of Regensburg. Ensslin is known for her work on digital fictions and video games, and her development of narratological theory to encompass digital narratives. Ensslin is known for her critical scholarship on digital fictions and video games, and her development of narratological theory to encompass digital narratives.
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Caitlin Fisher is a Canadian media artist, poet, writer, and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto where she also directs the Immersive Storytelling Lab and the Augmented Reality Lab. Fisher is also a Co-founder of York’s Future Cinema Lab, former Fulbright and Canada Research Chair and an international award-winning digital storyteller. Creator of some of the world’s first AR poetry and long-from VR narratives. Fisher is also known for the 2001 hypermedia novel These Waves of Girls, and for her work creating content and software for augmented reality.
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