The possible worlds of hypertext fiction
By: Alice Bell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230542556
Description: "Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reader. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction offers a new critical theory tailored specifically for this burgeoning genre, providing a much needed body of criticism in a key area of new media fiction"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The Universe of Hypertext Fiction; title: Hypertext Fiction and the Importance of Worlds; title: Contradictions, World Views and the Nature of Truth in Michael Joyce's (1987) afternoon; title: a story; title: Going, Going, Gone: the Slippery Worlds of Stuart Moulthrop's (1995) Victory Garden; title: Is there a Mary/Shelley in this World? Parody and Counterparts in Shelley Jackson's (1997) Patchwork Girl; title: The Colourful Worlds of Richard Holeton's (2001) Figurski at Findhorn on Acid; title: Bibliography; title: Index.