In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified to explore this stimulating topic. The essays comprise what Joyce calls "theoretical narratives," woven from e-mail messages, hypertext "nodes," and other kinds of electronic text that move nomadically from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and instruction , teaching and writing. The nomadic movement of ideas is made effortless by the electronic medium, which makes it easy to cross borders (or erase them) with the swipe of a mouse, and which therefore challenges our notions of intellectual and artistic borders. Joyce makes it clear that we are not just the natural heirs but, through our visions, the architects of new technologies that promise to enact our visions as much as change them. The collection summons writing from artists, poets, teachers, scientists, and feminist thinkers, and in so doing builds on notions of human possibility as a basis for the broadest kind of conversation in what Joyce deems our increasingly multiple, polymorphous, and polylogous culture. "Weaving between theoretical speculations, reports of actual classroom usage, polemical addresses, and a rich web of allusions, Of Two Minds strongly makes the case that hypertext creates a topography of textuality that requires new mod es of thinking about texts." --N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles A volume in our Studies in Literature and Science series. Michael Joyce is Randolph Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, Vassar College.

Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (Studies In Literature And Science)

Literature & Fiction

Michael Joyce

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

An Autograph Edition of 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. This weekend Liam's going away to college, and his mother, Cathleen Hogan Williams, is taking him there, driving south along the Hudson. For Liam, impatience to arrive at a new destination rubs against the anxiety of a future apart. For Cathleen, the trip has a second purpose: a long-suppressed love affair she had before conceiving him has resurfaced in a poem she is trying to write. Noah, her husband, endures the new separation at home...until an elderly Irish enchantress, a client of his law practice, leads him to recalculate what he himself may have left behind in his youth. For this couple, married and alone, Liam's going ripples outward across the surface of their marriage, the melange of their intertwining memories. Michael Joyce's new novel is an affecting song of the rites of passage--startlingly beautiful in its prose, even more so in its recognitions. In Liam's Going, Joyce--the foremost American author working in the new electronic artform of “hypertext”--has returned to his storytelling roots.

Liam's Going

Contemporary

McPherson & Company

Liam Williams is heading to college, and eagerly anticipates his independence. But for Cathleen, his mother, and Noah, his father, Liam's going is anything but easy. Both project their lost dreams of youth onto their only child, and when Cathleen leaves Noah alone upstate to drive Liam down through New York's Hudson Valley to his school, their separation becomes a moving story of coming to grips with losing... without letting go.

Literary

McPherson

Orbit the Angel Cat is a gentle meditation on the loss of life, care for the dying, and the abiding hope that love will always prevail.

Orbit the Angel Cat

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Linda M. Collins

Pets & Animal Care

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is the richly imagined story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw hours earlier might have belonged to his former wife. System Requirements: This title runs on Macintosh Mac OS X 10.3-10.6 (Panther through Snow Leopard) and on 32-bit Windows XP through Windows 7. It is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 - 10.9 (Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) and 64-bit Windows 7 and 8.

Afternoon: A Story

Computers & Technology

Eastgate Systems, Inc.

Football League Players' Records: 1888-1939

Sports & Outdoors

Soccer

Tony Brown

Football League Players' Records 1888-1939

Football (American)

Soccerdata

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