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- Title
Stuck in a Loop? Dialogue in Hypertext Fiction.
- Authors
Thomas, Bronwen
- Abstract
The article focuses on the use of dialogues in two early hypertext fictions. The hypertext fiction unmoor scraps and fragments of dialogue from any notion of a fixed context or a set sequence, creating the effect for the reader of being stuck in a loop where the same utterances recur. Moreover, hypertext fictions perpetuate an idea or ideal of dialogue as a way to work through issues or problems and even as a way of uncovering difficult truths that might otherwise remain hidden. However, it does not disrupt the notion of dialogue as something that is fixed and stable.
- Subjects
DIALOGUE; HYPERTEXT fiction; INTERACTIVE multimedia; IMAGINARY conversations; READERS; IDEALISM in literature; LOOPS (Group theory); HYPERTEXT systems; LITERATURE
- Publication
Narrative, 2007, Vol 15, Issue 3, p357
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2007.0021