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1. Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon

   This paper is a reading of a classic of hypertext narrative: Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story. Several writers have discussed afternoon previously. However I have chosen to explore afternoon from a different angle by using theories of narratology, especially Genette. In this reading, I explore ways in which the text confuses the reader but also the many stabilising elements that aid the reader to piece together a story.

   NB: Published under author's unmarried name, Jill Walker.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:40

2. Authors, Readers, and Progression in Hypertext Narrative

   George Landow, Espen J. Aarseth, Stuart Moulthrop and many
   others have heralded the development of hypertext because they
   believe it represents a revolution in textuality that will radically
   alter how we read and write, including of course how we read and
   write narrative. Print texts, we are reminded by the champions of
   this new medium, are linear while hypertexts are nonlinear.
   Consequently, the argument goes, print narratives encourage reading
   in a fixed, straight-line sequence—one word after another, one
   page after another—under the control of the author. Even postmodern
   attempts to subvert the fixity of the print sequence cannot
   overcome the stability of the printed page and the restrictions on
   format imposed by the traditional book. Hypertext narratives, on
   the other hand, are fluid by design; their sequence changes based
   on readerly decisions. To put it another way, as those who advance
   this argument sometimes do, readers approach hypertext narratives
   from variable positions within the narrative, and so their progression
   through the text—indeed, the progression of the text—is not

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.11.2012 - 15:32

3. Three-Dimensional Dementia: Hypertext Fiction and the Aesthetics of Forgetting

   Hypertext (the non-sequential linking of text(s) and images) was first envisioned by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson in its prehistory as an associational, archival storage system suitable for classifying and sorting vast quantities of information. But where library databases, technical manuals and other knowledge-based hypertexts still fulfill this function, literary hypertext overturns this proposed usage, celebrating both information overload and forgetfulness as the desired end of a reading. Promoting disassociation and an awareness of the spatio-temporal dimensions of its environment, hypertext fiction uses the aesthetics of its three-dimensional interface and structure to frustrate memory and to engender a sensory and emotional response in the reader. Focusing on M.D. Coverley's multimedia hypertext Califia, I will investigate how the aesthetics of the hypertext form become an engine of forgetfulness that drives her text through its explorations of lost memories, including the ravages of Alzheimer's, unofficial histories, secrets, missing pieces and the quest for hidden treasure.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 12:26

4. Intervals and Links: The Indeterminancy of a Link's Possible Future

   This paper proposes that link node hypertext can be conceived of as a postcinematic discourse and that a major mechanism of this geneology is available through the comparison of the hypertext link to the cinematic edit. I wish to consider the hypertext link from the point of view of Deleuze's cinematic 'sensory motor schema' where the link can be considered as analogous to Bergson's zone of indetermination between perception and reaction. This work builds upon recent theoretical work that has attempted to define hypertext as a temporal or cinematic medium.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 13:32

5. Hypertext: Reading Between the Links

   Hypertext: Reading Between the Links

   Scott Rettberg - 05.07.2013 - 15:42