TY - ART
TI - Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2 Chapter 3: Deena Larsen's "Samplers"
AU - Dene Grigar
AU - Nicholas Schiller
AU - Will Luers
AU - Holly Slocum
AU - Greg Philbrook
AU - Kathleen Zoller
AU - Andrew Nevue
AU - Mariah Gwin
AU - Moneca Roath
AB - "Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2 is the second of a series of open-source, multimedia books documenting works of electronic literature held in Dene Grigar's Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) collection at Washington State University Vancouver. The five works selected for this volume are among the most unique and fragile in the collection. All constitute long-form writing produced with stand-alone hypertext authoring systems available during the late 20th and early 21st centuries." -- from Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 2, Introduction
Samplers references the concept of the sampler quilt –– that is, a quilt whose patches do not repeat the same pattern but, instead, offers unique quilt blocks throughout as a way that demonstrates the mastery of the quilter’s craft. Like a quilter of cloth, master storyteller Larsen draws upon established quilt blocks for her sampling of stories. 'Firewheel,' 'Devil's Claws,' 'Mystic Knot,' 'Crossed Ends,' 'Century Cross,' for example, are all named for conventional quilt blocks. Recognizing Larsen’s design, therefore, provides readers with an understanding about what to expect with Samplers: Each quilt block of the sampler image found on the interface, when clicked, launches a unique work of short fiction with a unique structure." -- from Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 2, Chapter 3
C3 - Web
PY - 2019
LA - English
M3 - Collaborative, Hypermedia, Hypertext, Audiovisual, Scholarship
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/2477/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-01
ER -