Hypertext Literature: An Overview

Autobiography

• David Ellis's, A Wandering Wanderer and A Wending Way
• Matthew Hutson, My Own Body
• Jeff Pack's Growing Up Digerate
• Erica Seidel's The Wrong Way to Write/Right: An Autobiographical Catharsis of Reading and Writing
• David M. Yun, Subway Story: An Exploration of Me, Myself, and I

Drama

• Charles Deemer, Hyperdrama

Fiction

• Mark Amerika, Hypertextual Consciousness
• Anna Arutunyan's Lexicon -- Moscow and New York
• Don Bosco's Fast City
• Daniel Byers and Adam Mazer, Cold Awakening: Jack Fenix and the Case of the Rogue Cyborg (hypertext c-punk fiction)
• Jervais Choo, Earth Revisited
• Michael Di Bianco, Memory, Inc.
  • Introduction
  • Memory, Inc.
• Jay Dillemuth, Omphaloskepsis
• Lars Hubrich, In Search of the Author, or Standing up Godot
• Lars Hubrich, Raiders of the Lost Time
• Adam Kenney, The Museum
• Mark Kroop and Tim McConville, Cybersuds -- A Baudrillardian Tale of Life in Crescent Heights
• Peter S. Johnson, So That You Might Hear Me
• Courtney Kaòhinani Rowe, Awakening
• Courtney Kaòhinani Rowe, Idealism
• Kevin Lam Koi Yau and Wee Liang Meng, A Tale of Two Cities, one in the Future and one in the Past
• Paul McCann's Schroedinger's Man
• David Schwartz, Ma Jolie
• Tay Shi'an, Sam (in part a parody of "Sarrasine")
• Caroline E. White, The University of Yellow Wallpaper
• Wong May Ee, Heat: breaking down

Mystories combined with Fiction

• Patricia Tomaszek's Planting trees out of the grief — In Memoriam Robert Creeley
• Leni Zumas (with G. P. Landow), Semio-Surf
• Devaney Bennett, Sugar
• Samantha Gorman, Deconstruction of a 5x5 Knot: Meditations on The Book of Kells
• Taro Ikai (with G. P. Landow), Electronic Zen

Nonfiction

• Devaney Bennett, Vessels, or The Talking Skins
• Steve Cook, Inf(l)ections: Writing as Virus, Hypertext as Meme

Poetry

• Michael Frederickson, Liquid Reader
• Rodney Canete, Sidestepping
• Karen Lee (with G. P. Landow), Lexical Lattice
• Laura Maxwell (with G. P. Landow), Knots: Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Orality, Hypertext, and and Literary Theory
• John Tolva, Spenser Web

Critical Commentary

• Michael Di Bianco, Is the Novel Dead Yet?
• Michael Di Bianco, A Critial Approach to Memory, Inc.
• Duke University, A Generation of Proto-Hypertext Authors Pynchon, Vonnegut and Cortazar
• Ingrid Hoofd's A Hypertext Poetics
• Aristotle's Poetics: some affirmations and critiques
• Towards a Vector Theory of Hypertext Narrative
• Politicising Hypertext Narrative
• Defining Hypertextual Neo-katharsis
• Friesner on Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck
• Jasper Fforde on the Relation of Information Technology and Narrative
• Miniweb on Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
• Miniweb on Michael Joyce's Afternoon
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, The Poetics of Artificial Intelligence
• Monica Lancini, Mark Twain's Puddenhead Wilson -- An Experiment in Hypertextual Criticism
• George P. Landow, Is Hypertext fiction possible? (or does the link privilege poetry?)
• Tim Rohrer, The Hypertext Crito
• Heather Rosen, Hypertextual Twelfth Night
• Mark Rosenberg, Hypertext as an Avant-Garde Medium
• Paul Smith, Writing, General Knowledge and Postmodern Anthropology
• Voo Chee Kee, Three Reprises
• Mark Zachry, Purpose and Play in Hypertext: A Web Essay
• Vivian Rosenthal's Poetic Space

Related Resources

• Mark Amerika's Alt-X
• Basilisk
• Fiction and Poetry published by Eastgate Systems Robert Coover,George Landow, Massimo Riva, and students in their courses between 1992 and the present. [The link above leads to an introduction containing both indices to the individual webs and descriptions of them.]

• Grievous Angel Press (Australia)

Last modified 6 July 2007