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INTRODUCTION TO THE DIRECTORY
The Electronic Literature Directory
is a unique and valuable resource for readers
and writers of digital texts. It provides an extensive
database of listings for electronic works, their
authors, and their publishers. The descriptive
entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction
that makes significant use of electronic techniques
or enhancements.
The Directory provides easy access
to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing
bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new
forms of writing represented here are hypertexts
and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated
poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and
works that allow reader collaboration. Directory
users can also enjoy the enhancements that the
new technology brings to traditional literature,
such as streaming audio readings of poetry by
masters ranging from e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas
to contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners. |
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Authors and publishers listed in
the Directory are encouraged to edit their own listings
to ensure accuracy and completeness (see details
below). The Directory
is currently in a publicly accessible beta form.
Some bugs are still present, some key features
have not yet been implemented, and not all data
has been checked for accuracy. The great potential
utility of the database compels us to make it
accessible to the public despite these drawbacks.
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