Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer (Q2547)
scholarly work by Robert Coover
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer |
scholarly work by Robert Coover |
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1993
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Indeed, the potential of this fascinating new reading and writing medium has scarcely been glimpsed. The conventional nature of most of the fictions so far written in it probably reflects the apprehension felt in adjusting to a new medium (it took a century and a half after the Gutenberg revolution before Don Quixote first sallied forth, did it not?), but this transitional time will soon pass. Hy… (English)
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As one moves through a hypertext, making one's choices, one has the sensation that just below the surface of the text there is an almost inexhaustible reservoir of half-hidden story material waiting to be explored. That is not unlike the feeling one has in dreams that there are vast peripheral seas of imagery into which the dream sometimes slips, sometimes returning to the center, sometimes movin… (English)
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