As you prepare for the hypertext critique, consider your criteria for effective literary hypertexts. There are thousands of years of tradition informing our criteria for effective poetry, drama, and fiction; hypertext has existed for less than fifty years. As a literary form, it has almost no tradition. So, how can we determine whether a hypertext work is any good? What are your criteria for judging a literary hypertext? Consider the four we’ve navigated: Hejirascope, Firefly, Stained Word Window, and Vniverse. What works? What doesn’t? Why?
–dr t
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