essays

1999

01-Jan-1999
Materialism at the Millennium

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young gets inside De Landa's total history.

01-Jan-1999
Miloš Crnjanski and his descendents

Poet Nina Zivancevic translates and comments on poetry by the founder of Modernism in Yugoslav literature

01-Jan-1999
One or Many Gombrowicz’s?

On twentieth-century Poland's leading author.

01-Jan-1999
Outcast Narrative

Reflections on the abject in the new world order.

01-Jan-1999
Sea of Macho Stupidities

Svetozar Postic, on why his contemporaries in Serbia don't write like Hemingway

01-Jan-1999
The Body Sings

Doug Nufer on big business's buy-out of history and the corporate biography's elevation to an art form untroubled by irony.

01-Jan-1999
The Haunting of Benjamin Britten

John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work by Auden and recent findings.

01-Jan-1999
The Rose of Wandering

Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic.

01-Jan-1999
The Russian Gate To Postmodernism: Mikhail Bulgakov

Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master

01-Jan-1999
When Romanticism is no Longer the National Avante-Garde

Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry

1998

30-Dec-1998
The Revolution of an Anachronism: Radical Hypertextualism in a Text by Renaud Camus

Jan Baetens re-reads a print hypertext by France's leading gay author, whose work loses something in the actual translation into electronic hypertext.

30-Dec-1998
Reviewing the Reviewers of Literary Hypertexts

Thomas Swiss unravels Laura Miller's arguments in the New York Times Book Review and finds news of hypertext's demise premature - as was Robert Coover's call for the end of books five years ago in the same journal.

An Inter(e)view with Ben Marcus

Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String

01-Jul-1998
Lessons in Latent History

Steffen Hantke presents an archeology of Don DeLillo's Underworld.

01-Jul-1998
Seven League Boots: Poetry, Science, Hypertext

Stephanie Strickland asks how a poetics of hypertext can structure encounters with the world that are as resonant and co-participatory as quantum models.

17-Jan-1998
Joel Felix posts a response

On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.

15-Jan-1998
PMC editor Stuart Moulthrop responds

On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.

01-Jan-1998
Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma

J. Hillis Miller looks at the "multimedia" Victorian novel, embodied in ink, paper, cardboard, and glue.

01-Jan-1998
Image + Narrative

In collecting essays for ebrs 6 and 7, the editors sought work that would not only talk about image and narrative theory in the networked environment; we wanted essays with design elements in their very construction. The essays were presented in the context of Anne Burdick's first integral design for the journal itself, ebr version 2.0.

1997

30-Dec-1997
L'Affaire PMC: The Postmodern Culture-Johns Hopkins University Press Conversation

Joel Felix listens in on Postmodern Culture's privatization debate.