Hypertext Fiction Selections

afternoon by Michael Joyce

I Have Said Nothing by Jane Douglas

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Michael Joyce was born in Lackawanna, New York, educated at Canisius College, and received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently he is Randolph Visting Distinguished Professor of English and the Library at Vassar College. His writings include the novel The War Outside Ireland (1982), the interactive novel afternoon, a story (1990), and the collection of essays Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (1995).

J. Yellowlees Douglas received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D from New York University. Formerly director of the Program in Professional Writing at Lehman College, the City University of New York, Douglas is now Director of the Center for Written and Oral Communication at the University of Florida, where she is also assistant professor of English. Her critical work on hypertext has appeared in journals and collections in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, focusing on the applicability of literary theory, narratology, and aesthetics in hypertext environments.


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