George Landow (professor)

George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. He is one of the leading authorities on Victorian literature, art, and culture, as well as a pioneer in criticism and theory of Electronic literature, hypertext and hypermedia. He is also the founder and current webmaster of "The Victorian Web" [http://www.victorianweb.org/] , "The Contemporary, Postcolonial, & Postimperial Literature in English web" [http://www.postcolonialweb.org/] , and "The Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory web" [http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/] .

Professor Landow has published extensively on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, specifically the life and works of William Holman Hunt and John Ruskin. Furthermore, Landow's articles and books are of some importance to studies on the effects of digital technology on language. Landow discusses the effects of electronic media on literature, creating a plausible link with critics such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others. This places him in a slightly different position on issues such as "the end of books" through the prophetic and "futurologic" view often taken by critics regarding new media and literature.

Landow is a well-known author, researcher and one of the most important thinkers concerning Hypermedia and Hypertext in academia. His most important works highlight the epistemological modifications which result from the migration between systems of "closed" authorial publication (such as books), to the "open" systems, such as the hypertext and hypermedia.

elect works

*"Hypertext 3.0 : Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)", 2005
*"Hypertext 2.0 : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)", 1997
*"Hypertext : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)", 1991
*"Hyper/Text/Theory", 1994
* "Hypermedia and Literary Studies", 1994 (with Paul Delany)
* "The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities", 1993 (with Paul Delany)
* "Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer", 1986
* "A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper", 1986
* "Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian Masterpiece and Its Contexts", 1985
* "Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present", 1982
* "Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows; Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought", 1980
* "Approaches to Victorian Autobiography", 1979
* "William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism", 1979
* "The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin", 1972

ee also

*Jay David Bolter
*Robert Coover
*J. Yellowlees Douglas
*Electronic Literature Organization
*N. Katherine Hayles
*Shelley Jackson
*Michael Joyce
*Lev Manovich
*Stuart Moulthrop

External links

* [http://www.victorianweb.org/cv/landow_ov.html Official site]
* [http://www.eastgate.com/people/Landow.html Eastgate biography]
* [http://www.file.org.br/index.php?content_id=176&sel=6.1&lang=en# Hypermedia: futures. Critic and new media in the globalization era] a talk given by George Landow at the File festival Symposium/November/2005