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The possible worlds of hypertext fiction

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The possible worlds of hypertext fictionAlice Bell.
Author:	Bell, Alice,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	xii, 205 p. :ill.
Subject:	Hypertext fictionHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230281288

The possible worlds of hypertext fiction
Bell, Alice,1979-

The possible worlds of hypertext fiction[electronic resource] /Alice Bell. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - xii, 205 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Universe of Hypertext Fiction -- Hypertext Fiction and the Importance of Worlds -- Contradictions, World Views and the Nature of Truth in Michael Joyce's (1987) afternoon--a story -- Going,Going, Gone: theSlippery Worlds of Stuart Moulthrop's (1995) Victory Garden -- Is there a Mary/Shelley in this World? Parody and Counterparts in Shelley Jackson's (1997) Patchwork Girl -- The Colourful Worlds of Richard Holeton's (2001) Figurski at Findhorn on Acid.

The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction provides an innovative and comprehensive methodologyfor the analysis of Storyspace hypertext fiction. The book begins by examining the development of hypertext theory from the enthusiastic claims about the narrative capabilities that accompanied the first-wave to the analytical focus of the second. Drawing onsecond-wave conclusions about the self-reflexivity of the medium as well as the narrative devices that many Storyspace works contain, Bell convincingly argues that Possible Worlds Theory offers an appropriate framework with which to analyse them. Providing four comprehensive illustrative examples and an ongoing theoretical exposition, the book guides the reader through the approach while simultaneously supplementing and amending PossibleWorlds Theory for its application for hypertext fiction. The book therefore provides a systematic andreplicable analytical method that can be used by other analysts and offers a comprehensive andtimely body of hypertext fiction criticism as well as an elucidation and critique of Possible Worlds Theory. In addition to scholars of electronic literature, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book should appeal to researchers working in the areas of narrative theory and stylistics.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230281288Subjects--Topical Terms:

477647
Hypertext fiction
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN3448.H96 / B46 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 809.3/911

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520 $a The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction provides an innovative and comprehensive methodologyfor the analysis of Storyspace hypertext fiction. The book begins by examining the development of hypertext theory from the enthusiastic claims about the narrative capabilities that accompanied the first-wave to the analytical focus of the second. Drawing onsecond-wave conclusions about the self-reflexivity of the medium as well as the narrative devices that many Storyspace works contain, Bell convincingly argues that Possible Worlds Theory offers an appropriate framework with which to analyse them. Providing four comprehensive illustrative examples and an ongoing theoretical exposition, the book guides the reader through the approach while simultaneously supplementing and amending PossibleWorlds Theory for its application for hypertext fiction. The book therefore provides a systematic andreplicable analytical method that can be used by other analysts and offers a comprehensive andtimely body of hypertext fiction criticism as well as an elucidation and critique of Possible Worlds Theory. In addition to scholars of electronic literature, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book should appeal to researchers working in the areas of narrative theory and stylistics.
520 $a "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.
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