October 2, 1998
Studying the Branches of Hypertext Fiction
At least 50 colleges offer courses on the genre; critics see signs of trendy postmodern theories
On the first day of his "Hypertext Rhetorics and Poetics" course at Vassar College, Michael Joyce tells the 22 undergraduates seated at computers that they will be doing "a new kind of reading."
Most of the works on the syllabus can be found only on computer disk or on the World-Wide Web, for one thing. To read the stories, the
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