Tag Archives: hypertext

Creating a sister text – Some thoughts on a hypertext

By TF | Published: July 7, 2010
As I was writing on the weekend I got thinking about how narratives must always be incomplete. Incomplete in the way that a narrative cannot include every aspect of a story – because then it would cease being comprehensible and lose all semblance of being a narrative, among other things. The story I am writing [...]
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Public Library 26.5

By TF | Published: May 26, 2010
“The Hollow Men” as hypertext. Eliot’s poem with clickable referencing. More evidence that Modernist literature was made to be hypertexts. Pound hyperpoems anybody? Art vs. Laundry. Is poetry, or art in general, really that important? Stephen Burt investigates. Via The Poetry Foundation An author risks his life in pursuit of fixers in football. Article about [...]
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Public Library 1.4

By TF | Published: April 4, 2010
Eliot’s The Waste Land as hypertext. Includes explanatory notes, references, images and more. Use the internet, people – we need more hypertexts like this. Quixotic. Edith Grossman on her translation of The Quixote, and translation in general. On an almost unrelated note, the article brought to mind Borges’s ‘Pierre Menard’, proving again that brilliant literature [...]
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Public Library 6.11

By TF | Published: November 6, 2009
Kabul: city Number One – Part 4. Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan continues. You should be following it if you aren’t already. Borges’s short story, ‘The Book of Sand’ as a hypertext and game. Beckett with Lacan. Slavoj Zizek writes on Beckett’s ‘utter self-emptying of subjectivity’. Dictionary of Sydney. Exciting project that will only continue [...]
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