At first glance, Captain Jumbo seems to be a bright, sunny, and sweet game where you explore the world through the eyes of a toddler. Pretty early in the game you start realizing it is quite the opposite and it turns your world upside down. It is a brutal but important story to tell and it takes you in a direction…
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“In the Garden of Recounting” by Robert Kendall
Despite the fact that I have enjoyed almost all of the forms of electronic literature that we have studied in this class, I find myself most drawn to hypertext and interactive poetry. As such, the other day I decided to search the internet for sites that host hypertext poetry, when I came across an archive of work by the writer…
“There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are ‘public secrets’
In the work “Public Secrets” by Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer, the secrets of the California State Prison are revealed through a compilation of statements from those currently imprisoned. The work begins with an intro defining a ‘public secret’ as a secret that is known but the public pretends to be oblivious to, in this case, the truth behind the…