“How Do I Stop This Thing?” Closure And Indeterminacy In Interactive Narratives

Early critical article on narrative closure in both print and hypertext fiction that was developed into the book End of Books, Books without End. Provides an early and influential analysis of Joyce's afternoon, a story.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
WOE	Michael Joyce	1991

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Gaps, Maps and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1992
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing	Jay David Bolter	2011
‘Trying to See the Garden’: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hypertext Use in Composition Instruction.”	Johndan Johnson-Eilola	1991

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Autorschaft und digitale Literatur: Geschichte, Medienpraxis und Theoriebildung	Heiko Zimmermann	WVT - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier	2015
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions	Astrid Ensslin	Continuum	2007
Creating Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of Confutation	Donna Leishman		2004
Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond	Raine Koskimaa		2000
Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation Digital Objects	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum	Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies	2002
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World	Jill Walker Rettberg		2003
How Do I Cool Down the Overheated Medium? Reading Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope 2, "the most typical hypernovel"	Shuen-shing Lee	Dichtung Digital	2005
Hypertextual Fiction on the Internet: A Structural and Narratological Analysis	Roman Zenner	VDM Publishing	2008
Lost in the Archive: Vision, Artefact and Loss in the Evolution of Hypertext	Belinda Barnet		2004
Lost in the Archive: Vision, Artefact and Loss in the Evolution of Hypertext	Belinda Barnet		2004
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media	N. Katherine Hayles	Poetics Today	2004
Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space	Stuart Moulthrop	MFS Modern Fiction Studies	1997
Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form	Anders Fagerjord		2003
Techno-historical Limits of the Interface: The Performance of Interactive Narrative Experiences	Andrew Hutchison		2009
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen		2009

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