Michael Joyce (writer)

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Michael Joyce (* 1945 ) is an American professor of English at Vassar College in New York State and a hypertext author.

His Hyperfiction -Werk afternoon: a story ( 1987 ), was considered serious literature and is one of the pioneering models of non-linear texts that have become canonical. On this project, Joyce experimented with the short story genre in several directions. The story was created using the Storyspace software and published digitally by Eastgate. It is ambiguous, the narrator's perspective is unclear, there is tension and romantic elements, the meaning can vary greatly depending on the reading path. The story is divided into short pages, while reading you decide which next page you want to read. This creates multiple stories.

Works (selection)

  • War outside Ireland: a novel (1982)
  • afternoon: a story (1987)
  • Twilight, a symphony: a hyperfiction (1996)
  • Of two minds: hypertext pedagogy and poetics (1995)
  • Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000)
  • Moral tales and meditations: technological parables and refractions (2001)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Others are Victory Garden (1991) by Stuart Moulthrop and Patchwork Girl (1995) by Shelley Jackson . Source: Marie-Laure Ryan, Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium, in: A Companion to Narrative Theory , edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz , Blackwell Publishing, Malden / Massachusetts and Oxford 2005, paperback edition 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-1476-9 Table of Contents , pp. 515-528.

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personal data
SURNAME Joyce, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American angelist, professor of English
DATE OF BIRTH 1945