Electronic Literature Reading

      As I looked at the literature collections. I found that I liked the electronic literature in which I can make the story unfold with my participation. I like the "Carving in Possibilities" because the face took form as I clicked on through the lines of text around the murky image. However, I did not like the fact that I did not get much choice in the literature collections. I played with some that had the illusion of choice but were not truly free. The choice I made had already been pre-chosen by the author, and would lead me to an outcome already pre-ordained by the author. No matter whether I disagreed with the author or the characters opinion. I didn't like the controlled situation no matter how free the electronic literature may make it seem.

     After reading the articles. I like how she doesn't make one form of literature less important than the other. She classifies literature as classic, and contemporary or post-modern. Neither literature is more important than the other but equally important in its effects on people, and the improvements, and impressions they made or created within their own time.

     Additionally, she uses terms in the readings that apply to the different approaches or genres within the electronic field. These genres are similar to novels, poems, and dramas, and etc. But these genres are taken to another level with the integration of electronic literature. Poetry, dramas, and novels are no longer alive on lines of paper. But are made three dimensional, and multimodal. These forms use animation, pictures, words, music, and sounds to make these traditional or classical genres new, and more dynamic than they can be in their print forms, and creating new creations from these genres that are given birth on the computer screens, and made up of code.