...Eyal Segal Bell Alice , The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . xii + 205 pp . © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Geert Brône and Jeroen Vandaele, eds., Cognitive Poetics...

... is open to debate and interpretation, ensuring that discussions about the text's“meaning” will also take into account its physical specificity as well. Following the emphasis on media-specific analysis, nine points can be made about the specificities of electronic hypertext: they are dynamic images...

...Joseph Tabbi Electronic literature is not just a “thing” or a “medium” or even a body of “works” in various “genres.” It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective...

... at www.grammatron.com ,September 9. Auletta, Ken 1999 “What I Did at Summer Camp,” New Yorker , July 26, 46 -51. Bernstein, Mark 1998 “ Hypertext Gardens:Delightful Vistas .” Eastgate Systems Web site, accessed at www.eastgate.com/garden ,February 2001. Bolter, Jay David 1991 Writing Space...

... of Hypertext Fiction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Mac- millan, 2010. xii + 205 pp. As the book’s title indicates, its focus is twofold: on hypertext fiction and on possible worlds theory (PWT). Bell provides a methodology for the analy- sis of hypertext fiction, in which PWT plays a major part...

... of Hypertext Fiction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Mac- millan, 2010. xii + 205 pp. As the book’s title indicates, its focus is twofold: on hypertext fiction and on possible worlds theory (PWT). Bell provides a methodology for the analy- sis of hypertext fiction, in which PWT plays a major part...

... to Context (London: Routledge). Marie-Laure Ryan, ed., Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, vii + pp. This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber- culture studies, which has developed in parallel...

... the domain of phenomena discussed from traditional print literature to a variety of narratives in other media, such as amusement parks, rituals, drama, hypertext, and Virtual Reality (VR), the last two being of course the new electronic or computer-based media. At the same time, the ontology of nonactual...

... , no. 2 : 63 – 75 . Douglass Yellowlees Hargadon Andrew . 2000 . “ The Pleasure Principle: Immersion, Engagement, Flow .” In Hypertext ’00: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM on Hypertext and Hypermedia , edited by Shipmen Frank M. Nürnberg Peter J. Hicks David L. , 153 – 60...

... Literaturwissenschaft als moralischer Anstalt,” in Literarische Wertung und Kanonbildung , edited by Saul Nicholas Schmidt Ricarda , 23 e– 33 ( Würzburg, Germany : Königshausen and Neumann ). Ensslin Astrid 2007 Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions ( New York : Continuum...

... with the same number, which is not surprising for so convoluted a text. Ross and Polk (1996: 5) list various scholarly accounts identifying four, seven, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, and sixteen temporal levels. The contributors to the online The Sound and the Fury: A Hypertext Edition identify nineteen time...

... to the literary domain and develops them into cornerstones of a phenomenology of reading or, more broadly, of art experiencing. After describing how hypertext has been connected to postmodernist aes- thetics, Ryan refutes the claim made by hypertext scholars that the inter- action of the reader...

... of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber- culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth...

... describing how hypertext has been connected to postmodernist aes- thetics, Ryan refutes the claim made by hypertext scholars that the inter- action of the reader with the text turns him or her into an author, as if the reader’s immersion were a passive experience. The book starts by discuss- ing...

... of Nebraska Press ). Bell Alice . 2013 “ Unnatural Narrative in Hypertext Fiction ,” in A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative , edited by Alber Jan Nielsen Henrik Skov Richardson Brian , 185 – 98 ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Bell Alice Ensslin Astrid Rustad...

... to accommodate many contradictions in hypertext because they are meant to be noticed” (36). They insist that a full account of the reader's processing of narrative contradictions, such as Marie-Laure Ryan's or Jan Alber's, needs an additional, essential category: “accepted as an unnatural construction...

... not of itself guarantee that a text has been machine generated. For example, Jim Rosenberg’s hypertext poems, ‘‘Diffractions Through’’ and ‘‘The Barrier Frames’’ cannot be read except on a computer and in fact exist nowhere outside...

... distributed multimedia CD-ROM that puts into practice some of her views on the aesthetics of hypertext. Eyal Segal is a teaching assistant in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Lit- erature at Tel Aviv University. He is currently working on his Ph.D., which is a study of the problems of narrative...

... and the “spatio-­temporal elsewhere” of a play, usually established in its opening; there follows a dis- cussion of the components of the theatrical paratext. Jessica Laccetti, in “Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction” discusses the question by reference to the hypertext narrative...

... Narrative Paths in Web Fiction” discusses the question by reference to the hypertext narrative These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher. There, the problematics of beginning is part of a more gen- eral trait built into the hypertext medium, namely, the disruption of any single authoritative...