This article is about the hypertext author and scholar. For the North Carolina town councilman, see Michael A. Joyce. For the tennis player, see Michael Joyce (tennis player).

Michael Joyce (b. 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is also an important author and critic of hypertext fiction and electronic literature. Cary Town Council member Michael Joyce Michael A. Joyce (born May 27, 1961) is a member of the town council of Cary, North Carolina. ... Michael Joyce (born February 1, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is a former tennis player from the United States, who turned professional in 1991. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Vassar College is a private, coeducational, highly selective liberal arts college situated in Poughkeepsie, New York. ... Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext which provides a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. ... The term electronic literature refers to works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. ...

Joyce's afternoon: a story, 1986, was among the first literary hypertexts 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. (For instance, a hard-to-find series of lexias presented a new set of facts about the narrator's actions which dramatically affected the reader's judgment of him.) His Twilight, a symphony: a hyperfiction (1996) was a second hypertext story. Afternoon, a story is a hypertext fiction written in 1987 by American author Michael Joyce. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Modernism is a trend of thought which affirms the power of human beings to make, improve, deconstruct and reshape their built and designed environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation, thus in its essence both progressive and optimistic. ... Lexia may refer to: Lexia (typeface) Dyslexia friendly font Muscat of Alexandria Lexia, Western Australia Category: ...

Joyce's books include War outside Ireland: a novel (1982), Of two minds: hypertext pedagogy and poetics (1995), Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000), and Moral tales and meditations: technological parables and refractions (2001).

See also

• Jay David Bolter
• J.Yellowlees Douglas
• Electronic Literature Organization
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Shelley Jackson
• George Landow
• Lev Manovich
• Stuart Moulthrop

Jay David Bolter is a professor of Language, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ... J. Yellowlees Douglas is Director of the Center for Written and Oral Communication at the University of Florida as well as serving as serving as an Assistant Professor of English. ... The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO) is a nonprofit organisation initiated in 1999 to promote the creation and enjoyment of electronic literature. ... N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999 [1]. // Background Hayles received her B... Shelley Jackson Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including important contributions to electronic literature and hypertext. ... George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. ... Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. ... Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. ...

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