"Terminal Hopscotch": Navigating Networked Space in Talan Memmott's "Lexia to Perplexia."

The article shows criticism of the electronic poem "Lexia to Perplexia: Hypermediation/Ideoscope," created with computer code by Talan Memmott for the 2000 trAce Online Writing Community's annual conference, in which the author examines the artistic aspects of the poem regarding its organization of...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Literature Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 493 - 522
Autor principal: Swanstrom, Lisa
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press Fall2011
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Sumario:The article shows criticism of the electronic poem "Lexia to Perplexia: Hypermediation/Ideoscope," created with computer code by Talan Memmott for the 2000 trAce Online Writing Community's annual conference, in which the author examines the artistic aspects of the poem regarding its organization of space at the level of the interface. Topics include Memmott's complication of identity and subjectivity, the poem as a reading experience, and aspects of the poem's hyper text mark-up language (HTML).