Neohelicon
Volume/Issue:
Volume 36: Issue 2
Creative nonfiction in electronic media: new wine in new bottles?
Author:
George Landow 300 Grotto Avenue Providence RI 02906 USA

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Pages:
439–450
Online Publication Date:
21 Sep 2009
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2009
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-009-0013-5
Keywords:
Hypertext; Hypermedia; Paradigm; Nonfiction; Autobiography; Newspapers; Horseless carriage
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Abstract  

Moving text into e-space has thus far taken as many steps backward as it has forward, largely because the paradigm of the printed book has served as a blinder that keeps us from seeing possible new ways of writing—something nowhere more obvious than in nonfiction. After looking at a few examples of such failures of imagination, including an internet-only scholarly publication that fails to take advantage of virtual textuality, this essay first notes some nonfictional genres and modes after which it looks the relations between fiction and nonfiction as literary forms. Next, it suggests new methods of argumentation made possible by computer-based textuality. The largest part of this essay then explores three new forms: the blog as the electronic translation of the journal, the hypertext essay, and the Ulmerian mystory.

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0324-4652
Online ISSN:
1588-2810

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