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HYPE OR TEXT?

AN ANTHOLOGY OF READER RESPONSES TO HYPERTEXT FICTION & LINKS TO HYPERTEXT SITES

Created by members of the graduate seminar in "The Fiction of Postmodern America," Washington State University, Fall 1996. The assignment was to read and report on the experience of reading a work of hypertext fiction found online.

Dennis Bennett, Silent Computers Fraying at the Edges: L0ve 0ne Read as Reveling Hypertext

Dorryjane Birrer, Escaping the Confinements of Print?:A Response to Hypertext

Doug Bonnema, Analysis of Lies, a Hypertext Fiction, by Richard L. Pryll, Jr

Kurt Hemmer, Hypertext: The Lung Prophet by Harry Goldstein

Asfar Hussain, The Third Labyrinth: Language Loses "Ariandne's Thread": A Response to a Hypertext Work of Fiction My Name is Scribe

Karl Krueger, From Confusion to Control: Reading Hegirascope

Patrick McKern, Reading No Bird but an Invisible Thing by Christian Chumlish

Robert Mull, Hpertext Analysis: Site: Yoknapatawpha County Law Enforcement Division Evidence File

Mike Pringle, Hypertext Analysis of Indecent Commuications by Lewis Call

Martin Sharp, Hypertext Fiction: Cyberhype (and Andy Warhol Would Be Proud)

Sumathy Sivamohan, (No) dead trees

ON-LINE HYPERTEXT FICTION AND THEORY

Hyperizons Excellent general site for finding on-line hypertext literature and articles about hypertext writing.
Web Hypertext Fiction Another excellent list.
The Non-Linear Tradition in Lliterature Nice site that locates hypertext in a tradition going back at least as far as "Tristam Shandy."
Hypertext in Hypertext On-line version of George Landow's influential book on hypertext writing.
Newmedia Explorations in Contemporary Amercan Fiction with essays by composition students exploring hypertext and pomo ficiton.
EJournal's Special Issue on Hypertext
White Noise on White Noise A kind of hypertext made from randomly selected pieces of DeLillo's "White Noise."
Interactive Fiction (IF) Homepage Why just read a hypertext when you can help write one?
"Doom Patrols" A "theoretical ficiton about postmodern culture" by Steven Shaviro, this text brings together our themes of theory, fiction, and cyberspace as intertwined in postmodernity.