Theory Links

Theory Links

Power & Theory Links
Literary Theory Links
Musical Theory Links
High Narratological Weirdness Links
Bruce Sterling
Art as Narrative
James Joyce and Narrativity
Storytelling Links

Power & Theory Links

http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/freedom.html
Mark Domenic Pesce * Summer 1993 "Freedom" Looks like theory

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience by Stefan Wray on June 17, 1998
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/EDTECD.html
The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of cyber activists and artists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD). Until now the group has focused its electronic actions against the Mexican and U.S. governments

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Literary Theory Links

Approaches to Narrative Notes Towards a Bibliography http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Discourse/BiblioNarrative.html
part of the UCSB Web lit project "Discursive Modes" (last update 3/2000) at
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Discourse/index.html#Narrative

Annotated bibliography of feminist asthetics in the literary, performing and visual arts 1970-1990 compiled by Linda Krumholz and Estella Lauter
http://www.york.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/women/
bibliographies/literary_criticism.htm

Dr. Batya Weinbaum http://www.csuohio.edu/english/faculty/weinbaum.html

Narratology and Structural Exegesis http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/literature/
narratology/narratology.html "Narratology, taken in its most comprehensive sense, is the structural analysis of narrative works. Its chief theorist, Claude Lévi-Strauss…" Part of The Decameron Web, which itself is part of a much larger Brown U web on literature in the Italian department. Lovely design. Here’s another structuralist site which calls narratology a very well developed field of study: http://members.theglobe.com/rusam/theory.html

Surfaces http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/home.html online theory journal, has search on front page, has articles on narrative/ology

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Musical Theory Links

Musical Narratology by William Echard http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/music.html Semiotic Review of Books

Disertation by Buhler, James. "Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology As Discourses on Music"
http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.7/dis.2.7.html#buhler

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High Narratological Weirdness Links

Church of Subgenius http://www.subgenius.com

Chaos Linguistics by Hakim Bey http://www.dromo.com/fusionanomaly/fringeware.html
A "Temporary Autonomous Zone" Plus bits of web on Baudrillard, grooves & beats…

Alt.fringeware http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/groups-html/alt.fringeware.html

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Bruce Sterling: Who is this man and why should I care?

http://www.rice.edu/projects/RDA/programs/VirtualCity/Sterling/
Online resource index of Web stuff on or by Sterling.

http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/
Ever wonder where the authors of science fiction get their ideas? Judge the process for yourself in the MIRRORSHADES Postmodern Archive on the WELL. It's a pastebomb feast of raw clippings out of Bruce Sterling's email, mixed with a tasty soupçon of street tech and litcrit. Currently tracking: art, design, crime, virtual war, rip-off cybercreeps, dead media, anarchy, spooks, sickening outrages and cheering developments. If it's in MIRRORSHADES, it'll be science fiction in a year. In two years it will be in WIRED magazine. In three years teenage girls will be wearing it. In four years it'll be mentioned on CNN. In five years it'll be "discovered."

http://www.eff.org/pub/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/ US author Bruce Sterling on why he joined ALCEI (Electronic Frontiers Italy) (EFF = Electronic Frontiers Foundation)

http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/scale/nethistory.html ("Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling")

http://eserver.org/cyber/sterling/default.html Web of writings by Sterling. See esp. http://eserver.org/cyber/sterling/computer.txt, text of a speech about games and story telling at a 1992 game dev con.

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/techgap/media/gibsonsterling.html
RAM (Real Audio) file of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling talking about the future of education.

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Art as Narrative: Links from John McHugh

http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lawyerslit/story.html
A page dedicated to the interactivity of law and narrative.

http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/narrative/articles.cfm
Image [&] Narrative: the online magazine for the study of visual narratives. A resource for various article on the topic of image and narrative.

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/viscomtheory.html
"Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication" An article exploring the relationship between words and images.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/
entries/art_theory.html
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism’s entry for Art Theory. It gives a brief history of the development of art theory as well as some notes on the more current theories concerning visual art.

http://rjohara.uncg.edu/cv/1992BP.html
"Telling the Tree: Narrative Representation and the Study of Evolutionary History." This is an interesting paper on evolutionary history as a type of narrative or history rather than a just a scientific investigation.

http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.6/mto.96.2.6.grauer.html
"Toward a Unified Theory of the Arts". Despite its name, this article focuses more on the abyss separating the different arts rather than really attempting a unified theory. (doesn’t have much to do with narrative, but its interesting).

http://rampages.onramp.net/~dnewman/rbest.htm
An article focusing on the narrative aspects of paintings by Rebecca Best and her attempt at a confluence of poetry and painting.

http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.6/mto.96.2.6.grauer.html
Not much on narrative, but does talk about syntax and sign in music and painting.

http://tyger.smsu.edu/Theory/theory.html
A site dedicated to one of the masters of word and image, William Blake. An interactive, multimedia sight with aspects of Blake’s words, images, and music as well as parts dedicated specifically to Blake’s relationship with both Paradise Lost and the Bible.

http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr7/7intro.htm
A variety of articles on the relationship of narrative and image.

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James Joyce and Narrativity: Links from Kami Miller

http://llt.msu.edu/vol4num2/richards/default.html
"Hypermedia, Internet, Communication and The Challenge of Redefining Literacy in the Electronic Age"
-A paper by Cameron Richards that "argues that the dominant hypermedia models of the electronic literacy are too limited to do justice to new media and changing views of literacy in the electronic age, especially in terms of their recourse to postmodern theories of representation.
-Does some Derrida-bashing.

www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/theall
"Joyce’s Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and Its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegan’s Wake"

http://meno.open.ac.uk/ht97.html
-MENO- Multimedia, Education and Narrative Organization
-Workshop on narrative and hypermedia
-Links to papers about hypermedia and narrative

www.2street.com/hjs/
Hypermedia Joyce Studies- and electronic journal of Joycean scholarship
-A journal of criticism and scholarship on the work of James Joyce.
-Uses the WWW to take advantage of hypertext writing.
-Based out of Temple University

www.moorhead.msus.edu/chenault/joyce.htm
James Joyce WWW Resources- Brittany Goodman
-Links of websites dedicated to Joycean scholarship on the web.

www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf
The International James Joyce Foundation
-Links to the James Joyce Symposium, newsletters

http://fb14.uni-mainz.de/~enb/
Eurojoys- The European James Joyce Forum
-An early draft of Ulysses
-Exploration of "spaces of writing"

www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/fw.htm
Finnegan’s Web
-Full text of Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses
-Links to essays and genetic close readings.
Links for Literary Theory from Scott Infanger

http://fyl.unizar.es/FILOLOGIA_INGLESA/BIBLIOGRAPHY.HTML
This annotated bibliography site contains volumes of information directed at English language literary works. This site does not work hypertextually, but sends complete files via the internet to the receiving computer. A definite value for web-based research.

http://members.home.net/mikencarrie/critcont.htm
This website was created by Michael Terry. He received his Masters Degree from Truman State University and maintains this particular site out of love for English Literature. This website has easy to follow links that introduce and briefly explain critical theories and ideas of several authors and critics beginning with the ancients and following the centuries down to today. This is a good site for beginners and if you want to get a pretty accurate although broad overview of schools of criticism, a few hours here will provide you with ample information.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/theory.html#narratology
This website is similar to the abovementioned, although this one is much more demanding. This particular site has a broader base of theory and theorists to draw from and the several essays contained in this site are informative and interesting. Have lunch ready when you visit here, because it’s easily a days’ journey into the center of it.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4492 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
Broken down by time period, Rutgers University has collected a sizable number of links to solid resources online. While American and English authors dominate this list, links to sites concerning classical literature, and authors from other countries, while limited, are worth a look. This particular link leads directly to the theory section of this website.

www.theory.org.uk
"A website about the realtionship between the mass media and people's identities, genders and everyday lives." Includes bibliographies and original essays. Very flashy and graphics-heavy. A fun site for diversion and even a little academic exercise if you wish.

http://www.geocities.com/kristisiegel/theory.htm
A brief but clear intro to 20th-c. theory, including New Criticism, Formalism, Structurealism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and so on. Includes quick discussions and brief suggested reading lists. Again, this site is broad and as a result, lacks on depth, but it is a valuable site for the beginner.

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Storytelling Links from Gwen Sullivan

http://www.findarticles.com/m2342/2_32/54637197/p1/article.jhtml
"Saints, Sinners, and the Dickensian Novel: The Ethics of Storytelling in John Irving’s ‘The Cider House Rules’ (17 pages)
Author: Todd F. Davis
Issue: Summer 1998 Style
"As a literary model, the Dickensian novel provides the narrative structure for Irving’s own ethics of storytelling" (2). "In contrast to the contemporary direction of most poststructuralist literary criticism, however, Irving does not mean to suggest that those narratives that entertain are somehow less serious or less ethically challenging" (3).
Includes Notes and Works Cited.

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/inv_noir.htm
Brief explanation of narrative elements in several films, such as "Detour," "Scarlet Street," "Double Indemnity."
Short explanation of general narrative elements used in film noir.

http://cccw.adh.btn.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LDuchamp.html
"Duchamp and the Narrative"
"Last of three lectures exploring types of narrative in 20^th century image making. Duchamp attempts to create new type of storytelling by creating sequences of two dimensions that imply further levels of reality in a way that echoes the cabalistic and hermetic thought of the medieval and early Renaissance period."

http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000016.htm
"What Makes the Japanese Laugh? The Art of Wordplay and Storytelling"
Explains origins of rakugo. Interview with Hisashi Inoue, satarist, humorist, writer

http://blitz21.com/creativeweb/silko.html
Leslie Marmon Silko From "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective" 1979
"The story telling always includes the audience and the listeners, and in fact, a great deal of the story is believed to be inside the listener, and the storyteller’s role is to draw the story out of the listeners. . . ."
Links, Readers and Writers Forum

http://www.storyispromise.com/
"Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing"
Index of Essays, Movie Reviews, Craft of Writing a Novel, Book Review, and More

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