References Page
The quotations I have collected for this project come from a variety of sources.
Some of them were originally in Spanish, so I tried to make an accurate translation. I have divided the quotations
into 3 groups. In the first group we have "general quotations" about the hypertext theory and reflections about
the idea of author.
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The first quote "The are a lot of possibilities:
some elections are simple, others sensible...",
is taken from the Choose your own Adventure Book Series Manifesto.
The one I used is a translation from the spanish available
here.
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The second quote "I mean a non-sequential writing,
a text that forks..." is a Theodor Nelson's quote from his book Literay Machines.
It is available here.
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The third one "Holding a fact or an idea our mind jumps..."
comes from pioneer text As we may think, by engineer Vannevar Bush.
He was trying to make a justification for his theoretical proto-hypertext computer system, Memex.
The quote is available here.
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The fourth quote "The author still prevails in literature books, in biographies..."
is taken from the essay The death of the author, by french writer Roland Barthes.
Available here.
In the second group, we have another 4 quotes, which have been reached through the previous ones. These are much more
specific and delimit two different approaches to the hyperfiction literature theory.
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The quote "Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent..." comes from
the text The Rhizome, by Deleuze/Guattari
and available here.
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The quote "Perhaps the true paradigmatic work of the era offers the patient reader..."
is a Robert Coover's reflection quoted in the book Patchwork Girl review, by Shelley Jackson. Available
here.
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The quote "Most of the time, literary criticism still asserts..." has also been taken from the Roland's Barthes
essay, mentioned above.
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The last quote of this group, "the narration (...) runs the risk of..."
is an extract of the text Las posibilidades de la narrativa hipertextual, by Spanish theoric Susana
Pajares Tosca. She quotes Coover in her text
to refer the risks of hyperfiction literature.
Finally, in the last group of quotes, I've tried to mix eight different really quotes but extracts of archetypical
hyperfictions or literay precedents. They are related to each other by pairs of two (that is something the viewer
has to find out him/herself through the links).
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The first group is formed by the pair "We have been seeing each other..."
and "Oh, I should explain. We have code words...". These are two extracts
from mythical hyperfiction Lies, by Rick Pryll and available here.
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The second group about Ts'ui Pên's labyrinth is two extracts from hyperfiction precedent The garden of forking paths, by hispanic writer
Jorge Luis Borges. It is available here.
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The pair of quotes "Ultimately, every node, every piece of text.." and
"Ignore people who have specific prescriptions..."
are two contradictory quotes extracted from the Susana Pajares' text, mentioned above.
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In the same way, the last two quotes "Deep down, hyperfictions are not so different..."
and "One of the reasons why it makes sense to include hyperlinks..." are a contradiction
I've linked between the Susana Pajares' text and a piece from the Yo, el ornitorrinco weblog.