Stuck in a loop? Dialogue in hypertext fiction

Authors: Thomas, B.

Journal: Narrative

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

Pages: 357-372

eISSN: 1538-974X

ISSN: 1063-3685

DOI: 10.1353/nar.2007.0021

Source: Scopus

Stuck in a loop? Dialogue in hypertext fiction

Authors: Thomas, B.

Journal: NARRATIVE

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

Pages: 357-372

ISSN: 1063-3685

DOI: 10.1353/nar.2007.0021

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Stuck in a Loop? Dialogue in hypertext fiction.

Authors: Thomas, B.

Journal: Narrative

Volume: 15

Pages: 357-372

ISSN: 1063-3685

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.

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Preferred by: Bronwen Thomas