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  1. For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell

    In an essay that responds to Alice Bell's book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Stuart Moulthrop uses the lessons of hypertext as both an analogy and an explanation for why hypertext and its criticism will stay in a "niche" - and why, despite Bell's concern, that's not such a bad thing. As the response of an author to his critic, addressed to "thee," "implicitly dragging her into the niche with me," this review also dramatizes the very productivity of such specialized, nodal encounters.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2011 - 11:01

  2. Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

    Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 12:40

  3. Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext

    Essay discussing the motif of the car crash in early hypertext fiction, concluding that the breakdown (in many senses) is in fact a key feature of hypertext.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.07.2011 - 14:36

  4. Stuck in a Loop? Dialogue in Hypertext Fiction

    "This paper will focus on the use of dialogue in two early hypertext fictions. Both Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story (first published 1987) and Yellowlees Douglas's I Have Said Nothing (1994) have achieved near-canonical status having been excerpted in print in the Norton anthology Postmodern American Fiction (Geyh). As is often the case with hypertext fictions, the writers, Jane Yellowlees Douglas and Michael Joyce, also happen to be two of the foremost theorists of the form, and the sense of mutual influence is unavoidable. The aims of this paper are twofold: to explore the functions of dialogue in these fictions and the extent to which the representations are innovative; and to examine whether we need to reassess our models for understanding the functions and forms of fictional dialogue as we have begun to apply them to the print novel." (Source: taken from the first paragraph of the paper itself)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 12:13

  5. Experiments in Literary Cartography

    Coover wrote: “The most distinctive literary contribution of the computer has been (...) the intimate layering and fusion of imagined spatiality and temporality.” Of course, by “spatiality” Coover meant the topologies of text non-linear in its presentation, not a more literal representation of space. I discuss my experiments using the Google Maps API as an interface for hypertext fiction. This of course is not in itself new, but there are some possibilities in cartography-oriented fiction I would like to call attention to. In particular:

    1. Using a familiar interface, such works may introduce a broader audience to Electronic Fiction, without dumbing it down;

    2. The Golden Age’s concerns with spatiality are recast now with a third extra dimension, represented space in a more literal sense. The realm of topological possibilities in this intertwining – temporality, textual structure, represented space – is vast. 3. Such works inevitably touch upon our subjective relationship with space, and the shifting modes of our articulation thereof. Three works are presented:

    Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 11:56

  6. The End of Books--Or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives

    J. Yellowlees Douglas looks at the new light that interactive narratives may shed on theories of reading and interpretation and the possibilities for hypertext novels, World Wide Web-based short stories, and cinematic, interactive narratives on CD-ROM. She confronts questions that are at the center of the current debate: Does an interactive story demand too much from readers? Does the concept of readerly choice destroy the author's vision? Does interactivity turn reading fiction from "play" into "work" - too much work? Will hypertext fiction overtake the novel as a form of art or entertainment? And what might future interactive books look like?

    (Source: Book jacket)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 07.06.2013 - 11:03