Pressman, Jessica. "Navigating Electronic Literature," in Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary.
http://newhorizons.eliterature.org/essay.php@id=14.html
- Electronic literature is unstable: "it emerges as a processural performance across codes and circuitry within the computer and in response to interactions from the reader"
- Navigation: how readers move through electronic literature but how they read digital works.
- Hypertext:
- Non-linear: branching narrative by clicking on hyperlinks to access new lexias, or chunks of text.
- Gives readers more agency and partial authorship
- Interactive fiction: often calls upon the reader to manually input text in response to a query or narrative turn
- Signification: semantic value
- Reader brings interpretation
- Trilogic: interacting through multiple modes and voices
- Impulse to add complexity to a story is something that's been happening since post WW2
