Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon

By Jill Walker Rettberg, 14 January, 2011
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This paper is a reading of a classic of hypertext narrative: Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story. Several writers have discussed afternoon previously. However I have chosen to explore afternoon from a different angle by using theories of narratology, especially Genette. In this reading, I explore ways in which the text confuses the reader but also the many stabilising elements that aid the reader to piece together a story.

NB: Published under author's unmarried name, Jill Walker.

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