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  1. Principles of Spatialization in Text and Hypertext

    Principles of Spatialization in Text and Hypertext

    Patricia Tomaszek - 05.03.2011 - 21:48

  2. Forming the Text, Performing the Work: Aspects of Media, Navigation, and Linking

    This article proposes a theoretical framework intended to facilitate descriptions and discussions of texts of works in different media. The main theoretical traditions which have inspired this endeavor are, on the one hand, textual criticism (with scholars such as Fredson Bowers, D. C. Greetham, Jerome J. McGann, D. F. McKenzie, Peter L. Shillingsburg, and G. Thomas Tanselle), and, on the other hand, hypertext theory (represented by theorists like Espen Aarseth, Jay David Bolter, Jane Yellowlees Douglas, Michael Joyce, George P. Landow, and Janet H. Murray). The study aims to combine and develop the perspectives of such theoretical traditions in order to suggest a more consistent and extensive set of concepts for the analysis of how narratives are stored and disseminated. The study examines the structural aspects of texts and works, and deals with storage, presentation and reproduction of works. Moreover, the structure of works and texts, as well as the navigation related to these structures, are discussed. The study also includes an in-depth discussion on links and linking, and a new terminology is suggested for the subject.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 29.11.2011 - 15:18

  3. Three-Dimensional Dementia: Hypertext Fiction and the Aesthetics of Forgetting

    Hypertext (the non-sequential linking of text(s) and images) was first envisioned by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson in its prehistory as an associational, archival storage system suitable for classifying and sorting vast quantities of information. But where library databases, technical manuals and other knowledge-based hypertexts still fulfill this function, literary hypertext overturns this proposed usage, celebrating both information overload and forgetfulness as the desired end of a reading. Promoting disassociation and an awareness of the spatio-temporal dimensions of its environment, hypertext fiction uses the aesthetics of its three-dimensional interface and structure to frustrate memory and to engender a sensory and emotional response in the reader. Focusing on M.D. Coverley's multimedia hypertext Califia, I will investigate how the aesthetics of the hypertext form become an engine of forgetfulness that drives her text through its explorations of lost memories, including the ravages of Alzheimer's, unofficial histories, secrets, missing pieces and the quest for hidden treasure.

    Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 12:26

  4. Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume

    Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume

    Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2013 - 16:42

  5. Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

    Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

    Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2013 - 16:45