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[email protected]_digital_edge
edited by
Lesha Hurliman and
Numsiri C. Kunakemakorn with an introduction by
Henry Hughes
NotaBell Books An imprint of Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana
Copyright © 2002 by Purdue University. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Withoutcovers : //
[email protected]_digital_edge / edited by Lesha Hurliman and Numsiri C. Kunakemakorn ; introduction by Henry Hughes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55753-252-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Electronic journals. 2. Literature—Periodicals—History. I. Title: Without covers. II. Hurliman, Lesha, 1974- III. Kunakemakorn, Numsiri C., 1971PN4833 .W58 2002 805—dc21 2002004466
Our ¤ne arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present. . . . But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. . . . We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art. —Paul Valéry, “La Conquête de l’ubiquité”
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Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction 1 Henry Hughes Founding editor, Sycamore Review What Is a Book? 8 R. M. Berry Author, Leonardo’s Horse, and professor, Florida State University Out on a Raft, Reading a Book 17 Heather Shayne Blakeslee Editor, Poets & Writers A Marriage That Might Have Been, or Living, Haply, Ever After 25 Michael Joyce Hypertext writer
The Literary Magazine, the Web, and the Changing of the Avant-Garde 36 Paula Geyh Co-editor, PostModern American Fiction and review editor, Postmodern Culture From Mimeograph to html: Literary Magazines Online 56 Walter Cummins Editor-in-Chief, The Literary Review No Use in a Centre 63 David Hamilton Editor, The Iowa Review The Editor in an Internet Age Robert Kendall Hypertext poet The Left Hand of Capitalism John Tranter Poet
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When Horses Fly: Parables, Palimpsests and PBQ Marion Wrenn Editor, Painted Bride Quarterly The Same Thing a Little Better Speer Morgan Editor, The Missouri Review The Naked Litmag of the Future Howard Junker Editor, ZYZZYV