Patterns of Hypertext

The apparent unruliness of contemporary hypertexts arises, in part, from our lack of a vocabulary to describe hypertext structures. From observation of a variety of actual hypertexts, we identify a variety of common structural patterns that may prove useful for description, analysis, and perhaps for design of complex hypertexts. These patterns include: Cycle Counterpoint Mirrorworld Tangle Sieve Montage Split/Join Missing Link Feint

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
Colossal Cave Adventure	Will Crowther, Don Woods	1976
Forward Anywhere	Judy Malloy, Cathy Marshall	1995
Hypertext Hotel	Robert Coover	1992
I Have Said Nothing	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1994
King of Space	Sarah Smith	1991
Lust	Mary-Kim Arnold	1993
Quibbling	Carolyn Guyer	1992
Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts	Deena Larsen	1997
Sea Island	Edward Falco	1995
Six Sex Scenes	Adrienne Eisen	1996
True North	Stephanie Strickland	1997
Twilight, A Symphony	Michael Joyce	1996
Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse	John McDaid	1992
Victory Garden	Stuart Moulthrop	1991

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media	Silvio Gaggi	1997
Hypermedia and Literary Criticism	George P. Landow, P. Delany	1991
Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology	George P. Landow	1997
Hypertext and Creative Writing	Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce	1987
Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction	Michael Joyce	1997
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics	Michael Joyce	2002
Print Pathways and Electronic Labyrinths: How Hypertext Narratives Affect the Act of Reading	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1991
Socrates in the Labyrinth	David Kolb	1994
Threnody: Psychoanalytic Digressions on the Subject of Hypertexts	Terry Harpold	1991
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing	Jay David Bolter	1991

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
A Pragmatics of Links	Susana Pajares Tosca	Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)	2000
Avatars of Story	Marie-Laure Ryan	University of Minnesota Press	2009
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions	Astrid Ensslin	Continuum	2007
Card Shark and Thespis: Exotic Tools for Hypertext Narrative	Mark Bernstein		2001
Digital Literature in France	Serge Bouchardon	Dichtung Digital	2012
Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control	Jill Walker Rettberg		2005
Hypertextual Criticism: Comparative Readings of Three Web Hypertexts About Literature and Film	Jill Walker Rettberg		1998
Linking Strategies	Susana Pajares Tosca		2014
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media	Marie-Laure Ryan	Johns Hopkins University Press	2015
Reading Network Fiction	David Ciccoricco	University of Alabama Press	2014
Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound	Lori Emerson	University of Minnesota Press	2014
Repetition and Recombination: Reading Network Fiction	David Ciccoricco		2005
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)	Syllabus	Judd Morrissey, Álvaro Seiça	2014
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2011)	Syllabus	Davin Heckman	2011
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2012)	Syllabus	Leonardo L. Flores	2012

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