Meta-Interpretation and Hypertext Fiction: A Critical Response

Canons and Controversies: The Critical Gaze on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction

The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

‘An Infinitude of Possible Worlds’: Towards a Research Method for Hypertext Fiction

Reading Spatial Hypertext

Critics of hypertext have long expressed skepticism about whether people could or indeed ever would sit down at a screen and read hypertexts. They may cite the more general problems of reading from the computer screen (see, for example, [25]) or they may place the blame partially at the feet of the authors (see, for example, Birkerts’ indictment of hypertext fiction [8][2]). Some have even put ...

Hypertext fiction reading: haptics and immersion

Reading is a multi-sensory activity, entailing perceptual, cognitive and motor interactions with whatever is being read. With digital technology, reading manifests itself as being extensively multi-sensory – both in more explicit and more complex ways than ever before. In different ways from traditional reading technologies such as the codex, digital technology illustrates how the act of readin...

Literatronic: Use of Hamiltonian Cycles to Produce Adaptivity in Literary Hypertext

Literatronic is an adaptive hypermedia system for hypertext fiction. Its adaptive features are based on an algorithm that simulates a Hamiltonian cycle on a weighted graph. The algorithm maximizes narrative continuity and minimizes the probability of loosing a reader’s attention. The metric for this optimization is defined as the minimization of hypertextual friction and hypertextual attraction...