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Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a retired professor of English at Vassar College, New York, US. He is a pioneer creator and critic of electronic literature. Joyce's afternoon, a story, 1987, was among the first literary works of hypertext fiction to present itself as undeniably serious literature, and experimented with the short-story form in novel ways. It was created with the then-new Storyspace software, deployed the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading.

Michael Joyce

Born
1945 · Lackawanna.
Nationality
United States
Occupation
writer · literary critic · university teacher · journalist · scholar of english
Education
California Institute of the Arts · Vassar College
Languages
English

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Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a retired professor of English at Vassar College, New York, US. He is a pioneer creator and critic of electronic literature. Joyce's afternoon, a story, 1987, was among the first literary works of hypertext fiction to present itself as undeniably serious literature, and experimented with the short-story form in novel ways. It was created with the then-new Storyspace software, deployed the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading.

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