This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. A complete overview exploring the application of computing in lit…
Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic fundamentals of anaphors and anaphora; 2.1 Basic definitions; 2.2 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 2.2.1 Coreference; 2.2.2 Substitution; 2.2.3 Comparison of coreference and substitution; 2.2.4 Sense relations; 2.3…
This text examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but t…
"This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclu…
In Reading Hypertext, Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco have selected the best and most important studies of hypertext reading and criticism, drawn from disciplines ranging from philosophy and classical philology to film theory and technocriticism. These indispensable studies revea…
"This monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new-media writing. Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the mot…
"There is a broad consensus that digital narrative is "spatial," but what this critical term means and how it is used varies greatly depending on the discipline from which it is approached. Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic liter…