New Work in Digital Humanities

The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover

Jun 18, 2023

48:45

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Episode notes

Introduction

6min

The Myth of Missed Mansion

5min

The Gift of Irony

5min

The Legend of Inkadu

6min

The Social Co-Author in the Epic

2min

Origin of the Brunas

2min

The Brunas Holy March

2min

The Importance of Interactive Fiction

6min

The Power of Hyper Table

3min

10.

The Gilgamesh Moment

3min

11.

The End of Books

4min

12.

The Irony of Reading

3min

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University’s MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia.

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