Welcome to The Peter Greenaway Public Library Project. Though this
project was conceived of to fulfill the final paper requirement for
LIS598YA at the University of Washington for Spring Quarter 1997, it is
certainly in the spirit of this project that it might also be found
accidentally by those wandering the internet, probably looking for
information on Mr. Greenaway. Hence this little bit of introductory text.
Please be warned that due to limitations on the length of the document
(whatever that means in a hypertext environment), this study is defacto a
brief and sketchy overview, and not the more in depth analysis this kind
of project deserves.
This site is navigated via the three linking options available at the
bottom of each page. In keeping with the theme of the class (literary
theories of the nature of authorship and readership in the age of digital
text), different options of how to travel through this text have been
made available. They are:
Authorial Intent: Read the project as I would intend it to be
read if I were handing it in in a traditional format. The boring choice.
What does that say about you as a reader if you chose this one?
Randomly Generated: Dice were thrown to determine the order of the
sections. This arrangement as implemented isn't truly random, in my
opinion, as it doesn't allow for the repetition of sections -- that could
have been accomplished with a java or cgi script, but I didn't quite have
time to write one.
Alphabetical Order: The old stand-by of ordering schemes.
Actually, the ordering of this project alphabetically by the section
titles is just an arbitrary way of randomizing the elements, but it
appears to have some kind of logical order (how like a library!).
So take your pick. I do not know what might happen if you switch between
these 3 choices in mid stream. Probably something really interesting.
Pages with images on them will have their image credits at the bottom of
the page, as well as a link to the full-size image. There are no links
provided from the images, and you will have to use the 'Back' button on
your browser to return to the text.
Ken Thompson
6/11/97