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1. Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature

   This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices.

   Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH’s crossmedia materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The book deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry’s history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.

   (Source: Cambridge University Press copy)

   Astrid Ensslin - 15.09.2021 - 10:10

2. Extending modernist stream-of-consciousness aesthetics: Digital variations on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

   In the development of The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner proposed using coloured text to help the reader navigate the work’s stream-of-consciousness. Subsequent editors and textual critics have produced colourized versions of Faulkner’s novel. Inspired by these colourized print texts, the born-digital novel Little Emperor Syndrome (2018) was developed. This digital literary work and practice-led research explores the potential of born-digital modes to reimagine modernist stream-of-consciousness through recombinant poetics as defined by Bill Seaman (2001). Little Emperor Syndrome utilizes a stream-of-consciousness style inspired by the first and second (Benjy and Quentin) chapters of The Sound and the Fury. Using recombinant poetics, this digital text also allows the reader to recombine the text (or lexias) in various modes: ‘stream-of-consciousness’ (i.e. similar to Faulkner’s style), ‘cosmos’ (chronological), and ‘chaos’ (random).

   David Wright - 20.09.2021 - 10:54

3. "What hypertexts can do that print narratives cannot"

   'In this article, the author situates hypertext fiction readers in a binary relationship with their print counterparts. The hypertext reader is compared to the print reader in terms of the choices each medium allows.' 

   (Source: from Analyzing Digital Fiction by Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Rustad)

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 10:48

4. "Do you want to hear about it?' Exploring possible worlds in Michael Joyce's hyperfiction, afternoon, a story"

   "Do you want to hear about it?' Exploring possible worlds in Michael Joyce's hyperfiction, afternoon, a story"

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 10:59

5. Contemporary Stylistics

   Contemporary Stylistics' presents the current state of the integrated study og language and literature. From its emergence as an interdiscplinary blend of literary criticism, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and philosophy, stylistics is now a mature and vibrant single discipline, with a confident new generation of researchers enganged in the proper study of literature. This book collects some of these new voices together for the first time, and presents their latest work in a form that is accessible and placed into context. 

   (Source: from the book introduction) 

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:13

6. "Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design"

   "Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design"

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:27

7. Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

   The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. The international and interdisciplinary scope of these essays, representing every major theoretical perspective—including feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypertext studies—extends from classic literary fiction to nonfictional discourse to popular culture.

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:45

8. “Where to begin? Multiple narrative paths in web fiction”

   “Where to begin? Multiple narrative paths in web fiction”

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:48

9. "A Case Study in the Design of Interactive Narrative: The Subversion of the Interface"

   'There is a potential conflict in the design of interactive narratives. The exercise of interaction in digital environments, including games, may interfere with the experience of story. The article uses the interactive CDROMCEREMONYOFINNOCENCE as a case study in the resolution of this potential conflict. It frames the design of this interactive narrative as the reconciliation of two independent design domains: the design of narrative and interactive design. Narrative design seeks a state of immersive surrender to the work. In contrast, interaction privileges choice and its consequences according to the logic of the interactive world. CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE uses two tactics to overcome this disjuncture. The first is the broad infusion of narrative sensibilities in the detailed design of the work’s subsidiary craft (sound, graphics, moving images, and text). The second tactic is to suborn certain design specifics of the interactive interface to the goals of narrative design.'

   (Source: from the article abstract) 

   Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:59

10. "Schema theory and hypertext fiction"

    'This article provides a method of analyzing hyperlinks in hypertext fiction. It begins by showing that hyperlinks in hypertext work associatively. It then argues that schema theory can be used to analyze the ways in which readers approach hypertext reading as well as how links function in hypertext fiction. The approach is profiled via an analysis of external links in a Web-based fiction, 10:01 by Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie. It shows that links are used to provide an ideological context to the narrative as well as forging a relationship between the fictional and actual world. The article ends by suggesting that schema theory could be used to analyze links in other hypertext fictions as well as informational hypertexts.'

    (Source: from article abstract) 

    Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 12:26

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