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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. Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel

    PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts & Sciences : English & Comparative Literature, 2003.

    Advisor: Dr. Thomas LeClair

    Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 16:15

  3. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

    A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

  4. Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology

    While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium. By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling.

    J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 12:20