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1. The End of Books

   Coover's "The End of Books" essay in the New York Times significantly introduced hypertext fiction to a wider literary audience. The essay describes that ways that hypertext poses challenges for writers and readers accustomed to coventional narrative forms, including assumptions about linearity, closure, and the division of agency between the writer and reader.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:33

2. The Definition of Hypertext and its History as a Concept

   The Definition of Hypertext and its History as a Concept

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:44

3. After the Book: Writing Literature/Writing Technology

   Originally distributed with (or completely on?) a set of floppy disks, this special issue of the journal Perforations includes creative and critical works by many pioneering authors and scholars of electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 22:46

4. Hypertext: Permeable skin

   Hypertext: Permeable skin

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 22:57

5. The Grotesque Corpus

   Beginning by discussing his experience of reading the hypertexts in WOE (the Words on the Edge collection), Harpold uses bodily and fleshy comparisons to analyse hypertext: "My goal in this essay is to draw upon the entanglements of hypertext anatomy to outline a stylistics of hypertext informed by its contours. The practice of hypertext as a way of writing and reading is determined by its formal traits as a way of conversation. Medium as meat, reading as peristalsis."

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 23:01

6. After the Book?

   Brief piece arguing that hypertext is not really new.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 23:09

7. Gaps, Maps and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do

   Gaps, Maps and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 23:13

8. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

   Linking post-structuralist theory and developments in hypertext text technology, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology was for many the definitive work on hypertext during the 1990s and established hypertext as a field of serious critical discourse. 

   CONTENTS

   1. Hypertext and Critical Theory

   Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?
   The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept
   Other Convergences: Intertextuality, Multivocality, and De-Centeredness
   Vannevar Bush and the Memex
   Virtual Texts, Virtual Authors, and Literary Computing
   The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory
   Cause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?
   Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution
   Predictions

   2. Reconfiguring the Text

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:20

9. Electronic Fiction in the 21st Century

   In the 21st Century, readers will turn on and interact with
   literature that is displayed on affordable, book-sized computers.
   Electronic fiction forms will include "narrabases" (nonsequential novels
   that rely on large computer databases); "narrative data structures" that
   elegantly organize fictional information on eye-pleasing computer
   screens; complex narrative investigations based on the adventure story
   model developed in computer games; and stories told collaboratively by
   groups of writers in online communities. Computers may even store their
   own observations and use them to tell their own stories in their own 
   words.

   Author's Note: At the time of the writing of this classic paper I was excited
   by the possibilities that hyperfiction offered for a new literature. I still am.
   However, I now see print literature and e-literature more as parallel art forms
   where ideally writers in each medium understand each other's vision and, 
   as between poetry and fiction, sometimes move with ease between the two mediums (Source: paper as published on web)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.09.2011 - 21:48

10. Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)

    Michael Joyce's paper, "Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)," addresses the historical moment of recent hypertext fiction. He will suggest that the common perception of hypertext as an awkward and opaque mode of discourse may actually make it easier to grasp its historical significance. Before the novelty of the electronic medium fades, and electronic text assumes the transparency that printed text now has, we may better understand it as a distinct representational form.

    Joyce presented this paper as part of a special session, "Hypertext, Hypermedia: Defining a Fictional Form," at the 1992 MLA Convention. The panel was chaired by Terence Harpold. Other panelists included pioneering hypertext authors: Carolyn Guyer, Judy Malloy, and Stuart Moultrhop.

    (Source: Humanist Archives Vol. 6 : 6.0338 Hypertext at MLA)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.01.2012 - 13:30

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