Background
Sloane, Sarah Jane was born on October 5, 1957 in Tappan, New York, United States. Daughter of Thomas Charles and Virginia Louise (French) Sloane.
( When researchers in computer-mediated communications di...)
When researchers in computer-mediated communications discuss digital textuality, they rarely venture beyond the now commonplace notion that computer textuality embodies contemporary post-structuralist theories. Written for students and faculty of contemporary literature and composition theories, this book is the first to move from general to specific considerations. Advancing from general considerations of how computers are changing literacy, Digital Fictions moves on to a specific consideration of how computers are altering one particular set of literature practices: reading and writing fiction. Suffused through the sensibility of a creative writer, this book includes an historical overview of writing stories on computers. In addition, Sloane conducts interviews with the makers of hypertext fictions (including Stuart Moulthrop, Michael Joyce, and Carolyn Guyer) and offers close reading of digital fictions. Making careful analyses of the meaning-making activities of both readers and writers of this emerging genre, this work is embedded in a perspective both feminist and semiotic. Digital Fictions explores and distinguishes among four distinct iterations of text-based digital fictions; text adventures, Carnegie Mellon University Oz Project, hypertext fictions, and MUDs. Ultimately, Sloane revises the rhetorical triangle and proposes a new rhetorical theory, one that attends to the materials, processes, and locations of stories told on-line.
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(The ancient oracle system of I Ching has provided guidanc...)
The ancient oracle system of I Ching has provided guidance to wisdom seekers for 5,000 years. Now writers seeking ideas and motivation can take advantage of these ancient predictions, recast by Sarah Jane Sloane into relevant suggestions for contemporary writers. Each of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams, interpreted by Sloane from years of study as well as from comparisons of over fifty translations, offers commentary and direction for what the future will hold for the writer. In addition to this oracular system of advice, the book outlines the five stages of the writing process - brainstorming, planning, generating a first draft, revising the draft, and polishing - and provides a clear introduction to the philosophy of the I Ching. Inspirational quotations, writing prompts, solutions to common writing problems, and over 270 activities, exercises and suggestions are also included in this wonderful exploration of the creative process.
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Sloane, Sarah Jane was born on October 5, 1957 in Tappan, New York, United States. Daughter of Thomas Charles and Virginia Louise (French) Sloane.
Bachelor in English cum laude, Middlebury College, 1979. Master of Fine Arts in English, University Massachusetts, 1987. Master of Arts in English, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1988.
Doctor of Philosophy in English, Ohio State University, 1991.
Director women studies, U. Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, 1993-1994, 96-98; assistant Professor of English, U. Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, 1991-1997; associate Professor of English, U. Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, since 1997. Visiting scholar U. Washington HIT-Lab, Seattle, since 1996. Lecturer in field.
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(The ancient oracle system of I Ching has provided guidanc...)
Member of Modern Language Association (committee on computers and emerging technologies 1998—2000, assembly delegate 2002-2004), Rhetoric Society of America, College Composition and Communications (executive committee 1999—2001, committee on status of women in the profession 2001-2004), 18th Century Scottish Studies Society, National Council Teachers English, International Society History of Rhetoric.