Book Unbound

Creative Work
Author: 
John Cayley
Year: 
1995
Publisher: 
wellSweep Press
URL: 
Author's description and download link in Postmodern Culture
Language: 
English
Publication Type: 
Published on the Web (online journal)
Platform/Software: 
HyperCard
Record Status: 
Not yet reviewed
Tags: 
hypertextgenerativecombinatory1990sMacdownload
Description (in English): 

"Book Unbound" is a "collocational cybertext," a self-assembling poetic collage that can be read in two ways: either automatically in the "bound" mode, or in an "unbound" mode that allows readers to extract and recycle words from its recombinant text stream. It is a HyperCard stack (Mac only, HyperCard program not required) available for downloading.

Technical notes: 

Hypercard, download, Mac.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Year
Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext John Cayley 1996
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory Markku Eskelinen 2012
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth 1997
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections Luciana Gattass 2011
Hyperfiktion und interaktive Narration Beat Suter 2000
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory Markku Eskelinen 2009
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Jill Walker Rettberg

HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) NorStore CLARINO (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Norway) University of Bergen, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group European Commission, European Research Area ELMCIP sponsors

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