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1. The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link

   The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link

   Scott Rettberg - 24.01.2012 - 14:38

2. The Interactive Diagram Sentence: Hypertext as a Medium of Thought

   Consideration of my work in poetry over more than twenty-five years begins with an analysis of the difficulties of juxtaposition for the poet. A diagram syntax notation provides a method for juxtapositions to be included in larger structures; the accessibility of structural elements in a diagram allows for such constructions as internal relationships and feedback loops. Juxtaposition itself, with no sacrifice of intelligibility, is achieved through an interactive device called a simultaneity. Finally the interactive diagram sentence is explored as a vehicle for hypertext as a medium of thought: this is a truly “native” mode of entirely non-linear thought.

   (Source: Author's abstract from Visible Language)

   Scott Rettberg - 03.02.2012 - 16:14

3. Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality

   Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.02.2012 - 11:56

4. Conclusions

   Published in Hyper/Text/Theory (1994). Rpt. in Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2012 - 20:52

5. Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World

   This PhD dissertation is about works in which the user is a character in a fictional world, and the interaction that such works allow. What happens when you become a character in the story you're reading?

   The concept "ontological interaction" is proposed, which is a form of interaction where the user is included in the fictional world. Kendall Walton's concept of fictional worlds is explored in relation to electronic literature and digital art, and other narratological concepts are also examined, in addition to a general focus on the themes of force and control.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.03.2012 - 11:27

6. Bones of the Book

   A short essay about the digital future of books that focuses primarily on various e-book formats, constrating the failures of early experiments by publishers such as Voyager Expanded Books with more recent digital-publishing trends -- such as Touch Press's app version of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and meta-analytic tools, such as Amazon's X-Ray, which is bundled with the Kindle Touch -- that suggest the promose of expanded e-books. Electronic literature, in this narrative, receives only cursory attention. After noting that the "electronic literary vanguard tends to dislike e-books because they are too much like real books," Moor provides a brief account of electronic literature that, regretably, equates the field almost exclusively with the hypertextualists who built and wrote using StorySpace. While Moor is aware that a multiplicity of e-literary forms exist, he neglects to describe the "dreamy new places" that author-programmers have subsequently built.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.03.2012 - 14:33

7. Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction

   Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.03.2012 - 15:47

8. Fuzzy Coherence: Making Sense of Continuity in Hypertext Narratives

   Hypertexts are digital texts characterized by interactive hyperlinking and a fragmented textual organization. Increasingly prominent since the early 1990s, hypertexts have become a common text type both on the Internet and in a variety of other digital contexts. Although studied widely in disciplines like hypertext theory and media studies, formal linguistic approaches to hypertext continue to be relatively rare. 

   Patricia Tomaszek - 25.03.2012 - 13:25

9. Wittgenstein, Genette, and the Reader's Narrative in Hypertext

   Wittgenstein, Genette, and the Reader's Narrative in Hypertext

   Patricia Tomaszek - 25.03.2012 - 13:48

10. Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond)

    This essay sets out an ontologically centered approach to Storyspace hypertext fiction by applying Ryan’s (1991) model of Possible Worlds Theory to two canonical texts [...] Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) and Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (1991). The analyses show how the Possible Worlds Theory method allows the study of hypertext fiction to move away from the chronological focus of traditional narrative theory to address the ontological mechanics of hypertext narratives. The chapter closes by suggesting ways in which Possible Worlds Theory might also be used as an analytical tool for other forms of digital literature.

    (Source: author's abstract.)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.04.2012 - 09:17

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