forking paths

This work was an early experiment with literary hypertext that has been discussed or mentioned in several early theoretical texts, but that has never been published in full because it mostly consists of text from Borges' short story "The Garden of Forking Paths". Moulthrop describes it as "a sort of low-grade literary pastiche concocted as a laboratory demonstration--or parlor game--for an undergraduate writing class in 1987." Documentation of the work, with most of the text from Borges' short story removed, is published on the CD that accompanies Montfort and Wardrip-Fruin's New Media Reader.

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource	Author	Teaching Resource Type	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)	Judd Morrissey, Álvaro Seiça	Syllabus	2014

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
E-Borges: Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden	Álvaro Seiça	2012
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2018
Gaps, Maps and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1992
Hyperworks: On Digital Literature and Computer Games	Anna Gunder	2004
Magister Macintosh	Richard Gess	1993
Wandering Through the Labyrinth: Encountering Interactive Fiction	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1989
Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1993

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