Hypertext and Creative Writing

This was the first public presentation of the Storyspace hypertext authoring software, which became extremely important in hypertext fiction in the early 1990s.

The abstract reads: "Among its many uses, hypertext can serve as a medium for a new kind of flexible, interactive fiction. Storyspace™ is a hypertext system we have created for authoring and reading such fiction. Interactive fiction in the computer medium is a continuation of the modern “tradition” of experimental literature in print. However, the computer frees both author and reader from restrictions imposed by the printed medium and therefore allows new experiments in literary structure."

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Card Shark and Thespis: Exotic Tools for Hypertext Narrative	Mark Bernstein		2001
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	Johns Hopkins University Press	1997
Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field	Jill Walker Rettberg	Dichtung Digital	2012
Electronic Literature: Contexts and Poetics	Davin Heckman, James O’Sullivan	Modern Language Association (MLA)	2018
Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control	Jill Walker Rettberg		2005
Getting Your Hands on Electronic Literature: Exploring Tactile Fictions with the Reading Glove	Karen Tanenbaum, Theresa Tanenbaum	Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa)	2013
Patterns of Hypertext	Mark Bernstein	Association for Computing Machinery	1998
Storyspace 1	Mark Bernstein		2002
Techno-historical Limits of the Interface: The Performance of Interactive Narrative Experiences	Andrew Hutchison		2009
Transmedia Practice: Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments	Christy Dena		2009

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Jill Walker Rettberg