eMedia & Ancillaries
Student Web Site
The Student Web site features two selections of hypertext fiction: an excerpt from afternoon, by Michael Joyce, and an excerpt from "I Have Said Nothing," by J. Yellowlees Douglas. These excerpts provide novice readers of hypertext fiction with the opportunity to navigate this significant new narrative form and to contrast it with the forms of narrative presented within the bound volume of the anthology. Samples of each of these hypertext fictions are also presented in the bound volume of the anthology, to provide readers and teachers with a further opportunity to compare the transformation of narrative form reflected in the transition from print to electronic media. In the bound volume of the anthology are two other materials that will assist in elucidating the special structural characteristics of hypertext, and the new modes of reading that hypertext ushers into being: a "cognitive map" of Douglas’s ìI Have Said Nothingî (presented prefacing the printed excerpt of "I Have Said Nothing") that illustrates how the different "spaces" in Douglas’s fiction are linked to one another; and an excerpt from Terry Harpold’s "Conclusions" (presented within the "Casebook of Postmodern Theory") that provides a detailed description of the form of Joyce’s afternoon.
Electronic Course Guide
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This electronic guide offers teachers several different forms of pedogogical assistance for classroom use. The materials presented feature potential discussion questions for every work in the anthology, arranged alphabetically by author. The guide also includes alternative "thematic" tables of contents, which will help teachers to organize the readings in the anthology into syllabi for semester-long courses, or for shorter units. As mentioned previously, the thematic sections of this anthology overlap and offer commentary upon one another. These thematic tables of contents present more-comprehensive versions of the anthology’s thematic sections (e.g., "Popular Culture and High Culture"), as well as alternative modes of organizing the works in the anthology (e.g., "Other Voices Speak Up: The Opening of the Postmodern Canon"). Lastly, this guide offers a postmodern fiction timeline, which will allow teachers and students to organize the works chronologically and in relation to relevant historical documents.
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