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SECOND PAPER

Subject : # 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el siglo XVIII Grupo C
Student´s name: Aparici Sánchez, Alejandro

Title of the paper : ‘Twelve Blue’

Author or topic : Joyce, Michael

URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/images/mjoyce.gif

Abstract: On this hypertext I am going to work on the space in ‘Twelve Blue’ by Michael Joyce. He is dad of storyspace together with John B. Smith and Jay David Bolter. ‘Twelve Blue’ is a hypertext fiction. It has a big variety of sites looking for interesting structures. On this novel he is telling us twelve different stories and situations, and we can situate as the main character in different stories.

This is my conclusion after reading the text and while I was working on it. Also for this work I sent an e-mail to the author, who I am very grateful to him for his help. Because I didn’t understand at all the different spaces where is developed the novel.

Auto-evaluation:  I think it is a good work, so I think that my possible note may be B.

 
 Academic year 2009/2010
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Alejandro Aparici Sánchez
asan8@alumni.uv.es

About Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College, NY, USA. He is also an important author and critic of electronic literature.

Joyce’s afternoon: a story, 1987, was among the first literary hypertexts to present itself as undeniably serious literature, and experimented with the short-story form in novel ways. It was created with the then-new storyspace software, deployed the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading. (For instance, a hard-to-find series of lexis presented a new set of facts about the narrator’s actions which dramatically affected the reader’s judgment of him.) His Twilight, a symphony: a hyperfiction (1996) was a second hypertext story.

Joyce’s books include War outside Ireland: a novel (1982), of two minds: hypertext pedagogy and poetics (1995), other mindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000), and Moral tales and meditations: technological parables and refractions (2001). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Joyce has collaborated for the last six years with Los Angeles-based visual artist Alexandra Grant. The work Grant has made based on his texts («The Ladder Quartet» and the «Six Portals») has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and Honor Fraser Gallery (Los Angeles).

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Space

12 Blue comes from the wonderful critic, N. Katherine Hayles in her recently published book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01247.

On this hypertext is possible that at beginning you do not understand what is happening on your screen. It is difficult to follow the thread in many differents time because when you think that you are in the good way, something turns out you to be backwards.

You should read slowly each different node. Which one could be joined with Is it possible? Are you thinking the same space like another person?

I am going to explain my points of view but probably they are not the same as you. In ‘Twelve Blue’ the surface that first presents itself already invites us to play, for it consists of twelve colored threads in different hues, predominantly clustered at the blue end of the spectrum, against a deep blue background. The threads, which are interactive and change orientation according to how we play them, are divided into eight «bars» suggesting the measures of a musical score.  By playing this score we are also weaving the threads into patterns, a metaphor not so much mixed as synesthetic, for sight is in-mixed with sound, texture with vision.

This ‘lines’ could represent the line life too. Life’s from different main characters on the hypertext. I found some example along the hypertext as:

•            On an August afternoon…
• It is not the season for love, however, thin blue snow in the air, distant carols. There’s a rumor someone drowned in the river. La estrella es la noche helada de fósforo. You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white but I’ll have a blue, blue, blue (It seems like Christmas time but it look they are not a good holiday)
• What choice do we have but love, what season after?
• September’s embers never ending.
• She resolved to fall in love as often as possible so as to avoid the inevitable distrust which afflicts an orphan or the child of divorced parents (It told us a story about Samantha and a boy which their relationship it is not good).

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E-mail

On this section Michael Joyce answered to my mail explaining me how can I be inform about his work and how to see the space’s perspectives. Here I attach the mail that I sent to M. Joyce and his reply.

E-mail sent by me:

Dear Michael Joyce,

My name is Alejandro Aparici. I’m from Valencia’s University in

Spain. I´m studying English Studies.

One of my subjects for this year is Narrative and I have choosen one of

your works, ‘Twelve Blue’because I think it is an interesting hypertext.

My work is about the ‘Space’ and I’m a little bit lost and i would like

if you could help me sending me information about the «Space» you were

wiriting it.

Sincerelly

Alejandro Aparici Sánchez

        Reply from M. Joyce:

                    Dear Alejandro Aparici Sánchez,

Thank you for your kind inquiry about Twelve

Blue. By far the best introduction to that work

is Chapter Two of N. Katherine Hayles' book,

Electronic Literature:  New Horizons for the

Literary (Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame

Press, 2008).  The chapter is a revised version

of"Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision,"  an

essay Hayles previously published inNew Literary

History - Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2007, pp.

99-125, attached here.

Long before that Gregory L. Ulmer,, published "A

Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce" in

Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 1, September 1997, also attached.

  I also assume you are aware of Susana Pajares

Tosca's site Hipertulia which she describes as

"na página dedicada al hipertexto y a la

hiperficción que quiere cubrir parcialmente el

vacío que existe en castellano sobre estos

asuntos,"

http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/bienven.htm

I want to respond to your  questions in a way

that you find useful to your purposes but wonder

whether it might not be more economical to first

provide you with some links to previous

interviews where I discuss my hypertexts and

other work. My most recent interview accompanied

a review/essay regarding my recent print novel

Liam's Going and was published by the  trAce

Online Writing Centre at The Nottingham Trent

University,

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=33

A review of that same novel in the electronic

book review (ebr) by Dave Ciccoricco to my mind

considers many of the issues I addressed in

'Twelve Blue"

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/dialectical

Ciccoricco has also written reviews of my

hypertext "Twilight, a Symphony"

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/notanend

and  an essay about my retreat from the web,

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/tropical

As for the web interviews a wide-ranging

interview from 2001 with Jan-Hendrik Bakker,

"Hypertext and the human factor. Narrativity

after modernism. A conversation with Michael

Joyce." is at  Centrum voor Filosofie & Kunst,

Erasmus University of Rotterdam,

http://www2.eur.nl/fw/cfk/kunsten/hypertext.shtml

I am also fond of the conversation in "One on One

with Camille Renshaw," Pif Magazine 2000,

http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol32/i_m_joyce.shtml

Two other earlier interviews of interest are:

Digital Culture, Interview with Ralph Lombreglia,

Atlantic UnBound 1996.

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc9611/joyce.htm

"Hypertextual Berlin," by David Hudson,ReWired

September 8th, 1997

http://www.rewired.com/97/0908.html

If you are not sick of me by the time you've read

these interviews and/or still have questions, let

me know.

Best wishes for your project

Michael

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CONCLUSION

Twelve Blue, is my first experience in the hypertext’s world. Firstly my impression on the hypertext was ‘special’. Because one screen had not relation with other one. Then I do not know how I must do it. I was lost. For this reason I sent an e-mail to the author of the hypertext, Michael Joyce, who answered me very nicely.

I had chosen that work because the hypertext’s title attracted my attention. And I have analyzed the space perspective of this work.

I think it is a different way to show a work, depending where you click, there will happen one thing or other one.

You can see it as a giant semiotic code. Nothing is represented here. It represents an union of many words but that does not look for an immediate end rather they try to come to you from a form different from a poem, story, etc. Michael Joyce produces this effect.

It is obvious that a hypertext has not got the same characteristics that a common text. If we are concentrated in the argument, we can say that a great range of possibilities is opened, since the different stories depend on the choice of the internaut. Depending the link that you click on the history will happen one thing or another thing. The interactivity is a key factor in the process for the reading and interpretation of the hypertext, It seems you that you are the main character. And I have analyzed the space, that is an implicit elemnt in the argument, although it depends on the choice of the internaut.

In addition, my study about Twelve Blue’ has done that I could consider the hypertext as a way for entertaining for the reading of a text and I think it is creativity hypertext.

I really like ‘Twelve Blue’. I recommend you if you have time read it slowly and enjoy with hypertext fiction.

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WELCOME

Welcome to my blog, I am Alejandro Aparici and I study English Studies.
The distribution from this blog is very simply. In the part English Narrativa I will be study three different aspects from different authors. The information about the first author will be in the First Paper page, and for the second author in the Second Paper page.
The first author to study is John Stuart Mill, and I am going to talk about the books written by him, the books written about him and his E-texts.

And the second author to study is Michael Joyce and the hypertext, and I will study his work ‘Twelve Blue’ and I will focus this second paper on the spacial aspect.
I hope that you enjoy this blog!

Subject: # 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el siglo XVIII Grupo C

Student’s name: Aparici Sánchez, Alejandro

Title of the paper: Research on John Stuart Mill

Author or topic: Mill, John Stuart

Abstract: In this First Paper, I have chosen to work the author John Stuart Mill (London, 1806 – Avignon, 1876). In this research I am going to work about the bibliography of John Stuart Mill. Concretely the books written by him in his life, the books written about his life and the E-texts of John Stuart Mill; the e-texts are the books of John Stuart Mill which are uploaded on the net. And finally at the end of the blog is post the Bibliography, URL’s is published the bibliography in which I was helped by. Also this blog is started and ended by an introduction and a conclusion. On the introduction I am going to explain the parts that I am going to expose on this blog, and in the conclusion I am going to expose the problems that I have had and my personal opinion about the author. And also you know that you can complement this information with other blogs like: http://palal4.blogs.uv.es and http://marmarto.blogs.uv.es which have more information about John Stuart Mill, information like his chronology and his biography.

Auto-evaluation:

I believe that I deserve me a 6 because I have been working the best than I could and also I have been finding information about this author but there wasn’t a lot. And also this is my first blog and it was so difficult for me to organize it. I hope that this one blog uses you as help.

Academic year 2009/2010
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Alejandro Aparici Sánchez
asan8@alumni.uv.es

Conclusion:

On this post, I am going to explain the difficult that I have found to make a research about John Stuart Mill

I haven’t found a lot of difficulties only that I have never done a blog and was so difficult for me organize it, and the other difficulty is that I haven’t found a lot of information about John Stuart Mill. Although there have been enough. So I hope that this one research has used you as help, and you have enjoyed it.

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Introduction:

On this blog, on the page First Paper you can find a research about John Stuart Mill, who was an English author of the XIX century.

I am going to talk about the bibliographic aspect of John Stuart Mill, specifically I am going to make different posts where I am going to expose the books written about John Stuart Mill, the books written by John Stuart Mill and the e-texts of John Stuart Mill. The e-texts are the same that the books written by him but uploaded on the net.

So, to sum up, on the First Paper I am going to talk about the bibliographic aspect of John Stuart Mill. Also know that this blog is complemented with other two which also talks about John Stuart Mill, the Marta’s blog talks about the John Stuart Mill’s chronology and the Paloma’s blog talks about the John Stuart Mill’s bibliography.
I hope that this one blog uses you as help.

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On this post i will publish the URL’s in which i was helped by, that is the same, the bibliography.

http://www.john-mill.com

http://www.utilitarian.net/jsmill

http://www.alcoberro.info/V1/utilitarisme9.htm

http://www.alcoberro.info/V1/utilitarisme10.htm

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anth/AnthAlva.htm

http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=5594&cat=etica

http://www.gutemberg.org

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16833/16833-h/16833-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-8.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9394

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9388

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12004/12004-h/12004-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27083/27083-h/27083-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26495/26495-pdf.pdf

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11224/11224-h/11224-h.htm

http://www.definicion.org/e-book

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