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1. 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