"In America, postmodernism is all about turning the Nietzschean 'prisonhouse of language' into the Disneyfied playhouse of language, whereas in Eastern Europe everything's become a 'playhouse of (hi)stories': serious issues of repression, dictatorship, and manipulation are being laughed at, played with, and travestied, while national histories are being told, retold, lied about, and twisted into pomo plots and discourses." >--- introduction ebr8 east/euro/pomo (part i of Internet Nation) --------------------------------------- At the Moment I Became a Global Dictator A media parable by Novica Milic The Rose of Wandering Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic Becoming Postmodern: A Romanian Literature Survey Florin Popescu introduces Western readers to a national literature whose modern humor and archaic spirituality affront postmodern sensibilities When Romanticism is no Longer the National Avante-Garde Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry The Russian Gate To Postmodernism: Mikhail Bulgakov Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master Miloš Crnjanski and his descendents Poet Nina Zivancevic translates and comments on poetry by the founder ofModernism in Yugoslav literature Cover to Cover Paratextual Play in Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars Ivan Callus skims the surface of Pavic's print hypertext Alice's Adventures in Sanctionland Vladislava Gordic writes to a friend in London ebr8 reVIEWs on east/euro/pomo --------------------------------------- Svetozar Postic, on why his contemporaries in Serbia don't write like Hemingway   ebr cluster on narrative --------------------------------------- >--- ebr5 (electro)poetics The Revolution of an Anachronism: Radical Hypertextualism in a Text byRenaud Camus Jan Baetens re-reads a print hypertext by France's leading gay author, whosework loses something in the actual translation into electronic hypertext Slash and Burn Harold Jaffe offers a narrative model for the millenium Reviewing the Reviewers of Literary Hypertexts Thomas Swiss unravels Laura Miller's arguments in the New York Times Book Review and finds news of hypertext's demise premature - as was Robert Coover's call for the end of books five years ago in the same journal Fucked by the Master's Plot (>--woven into ebr9) H. Kassia Fleisher finds more than coincidence between plot-writing software, reader expectation, the knee-jerk of traditional story, literary production, Joan Collins's trial over her first novel, pleasure and gratification, hypertexual vertigo, and Disney's corporate city, Celebration® ebr8 reVIEWs of general interest --------------------------------------- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young gets inside De Landa's total history; Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds follows the narrative line of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon as it bifurcates and spreads over the globe and across two centuries; Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String and publication of a new work by Marcus, Notable American Women;Nikki Dillon reviews No Lease on Life; Walton Muyumba on Scott DeVeaux, Ingrid Monson, and the writing of jazz history; Harold Fromm reviews three new booksof eco-criticism; Douglas Nufer on big business's buy-out of history and the corporate biography's elevation to an art-form untroubled by irony. retroREview: John Mathias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's Biography of 1988, in light of recent findings.   | | | ^   >--thREADs     reVIEWs--<