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» 1993 «
Coover, Robert, Becker, Howard, Douglas, Jane, Joyce, Michael, Moulthrop, Stuart, McDaid, John and Arnold, Mary-Kim (1993): Hypertext Fiction: Structure and Narrative. In: Stotts, P. David and Furuta, Richard (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 93 Conference November 14-18, 1993, Seattle, Washington. .
“Serious literary hypertexts (notably the work of the so-called "Eastgate School") have emerged in recent years as a growing influence on both mainstream hypertext writing and on the larger literary community. By exploring the interaction between structure and narrative, and the hypertextual interplay between reader and writer, these works break ground of equal importance to literature, scholarship, and technical communication. The panel will create a constructive, collaborative hypertext live and onstage.”
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» 1992 «
Coover, Robert (1992): Hypertext: Beyond the End of the Book. In: Lucarella, D., Nanard, Jocelyne, Nanard, Marc and Paolini, P. (eds.) Proceedings of ECHT 92 the Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext November 30 - December 04, 1992, Milano, Italy. p. 289. Available online
“For the narrative artist, hyperspace has all the charm of a starry sky in August: the weather's comfortable, the twinkle's alluring, but the vista's intimidatingly awesome. The simple linear trajectories of the earthbound, once thought confining and inflexible, are seen to have a certain reassuring structure, an "A" and a "B" between which narrative, ever on the go, might safely move, feet on the ground. It's pretty out there in infinity, but if you head out, how do you get home again? Creative artists are still fumbling in this new space, this new medium, toying with the possibilities of multidimensionality, nonlinearity, interactivity, polyvocality, and, increasingly, the incorporation of other arts, visual, kinetic, and aural, but not yet convinced that narrative, as we lovingly know it, can overcome the motionsickness associated with the absence of gravity. Most academic hypertext projects preserve a sense of gravity by allowing a body of informational satellites to circle loosely about some core subject, a poem, say, or an historical event, a social entity, a philosophical or legal problem, etc., and such models might well serve artistic projects but they cannot define or delimit them. Nor does it help to implant a line. All these centuries of resisting the tyranny of the line, and suddenly it is gone as though it never existed, but reinventing it, though an option for some, is a bit like building a road in outer space so we can take our cars out there. Most narrative artists, for the moment, prefer to stay home where the environment's friendly and there's plenty of company. They still like the familiar paths with their beginnings, middles, and ends, even if not always traveled in that order. The navigational procedures are still so demanding out there in hyperspace, that there's too little time to appreciate style, voice, eloquence, character, story. Links and maps seem more compelling than text, as though the ancillas of book culture -- the tables of contents, the indices and appendices, the designs and jackets and headers -- might have swallowed up the stuff inside. There's an appeal in interactivity -- and a threat. And, maybe worst of all, where's closure out there? How do you know when one journey's over and another can begin? So the field is largely left at present to the rash, the young, the enterprising. Flights are being made in vehicles that seem as creaky at times as the tin spaceships of the old silent movies, and few of the adventures escape the atmosphere of print technology, but with each foray something new is added to the craft, the orbits widen, the manuals expand. Perhaps the greatest stimulus to these explorations is the promise of a multimedia instrument panel. Hyperspace may always be a bit hostile to the isolated traveler. Creative projects in it may more resemble a multitalented film production than the private writing of a book or poem.”
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Publication statistics
Publication period:1992-1993
Publication count:2
Number of co-authors:6
Productive colleagues
Robert Coover's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Stuart Moulthrop:15Michael Joyce:7John McDaid:2Collaboration count
Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
John McDaid:1Mary-Kim Arnold:1Stuart Moulthrop:1
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