Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raquel_1protegido.pdf: 1527650 bytes, checksum: 01d14d9db4f87a9a3c035f5fee2cdf94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-10-15 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work aims to analyse hypertext writing through the software Storyspace, as well as two works in that application, Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, a story (1992), and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995). We think that since hypertext is a writing technology, it must be understood from this technical aspects, and the new poetics that it is able to produce. The first chapter presents Storyspace, the software, talking about its technical aspects, and how that collaborates in the literary creation. Second chapter intends to define digital poetics, bringing up some aspects, like intermedia, or conceptual fusion and the materiality of writing. Third chapter makes an analysis of Michael Joyce's Afternoon, a story, observing some aspects, like its originality. Fourth chapter brings Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, and examines some features, like hypertext which talk about hypertext, or, in other words, the work which asks for its own inscription technology. / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar a escrita em hipertexto através de um programa de computador, o Storyspace, e de duas obras com ele criadas: Afternoon, a story (Michael Joyce, 1992) e Patchwork Girl (Shelley Jackson, 1995). Entendemos que, como tecnologia de escrita, o hipertexto deve ser estudado do ponto de vista de suas características técnicas e de como elas influenciam as escritas nos meios digitais e as novas poéticas desses meios. O primeiro capítulo apresenta o programa Storyspace, discorrendo sobre suas características no sentido de como elas interferem na criação. O segundo capítulo procura definir poéticas digitais, levantando especificidades, tais como a intermídia ou fusão conceitual, a materialidade da escrita e a metalinguagem. O terceiro capítulo faz uma análise de Afternoon, a story, de Michael Joyce, observando particularidades como seu pioneirismo na criação de ficção em hipertexto. O quarto e último capítulo traz Patchwork Girl, de Shelley Jackson, examinando algumas de suas características, como a obra que interroga sua própria tecnologia de inscrição.

Victory Garden, Stuart Moulthrop’s 1991 classic hyperfiction, presents a nonlinear story of U. S. home front involvement in the First Gulf War in a way that facilitates confusion and mimics a "fog of war" sort of (un)awareness. Using Storyspace to build his complex narrative, Moulthrop incorporates poetry, fiction, historical references, and low-tech graphic novel type elements. Among the graphic components are all-black and all-white screens that function as variables. Overtly, these screens speak of closure and signify unconsciousness; however, their nonverbal role may also be linked to the ineffability trope as used by Dante Alighieri and re-interpreted by contemporary linguist Ruiging Liang. To date, critics and meta-readers have incorrectly assumed that the protagonist, Emily Runbird, becomes a fatality. By failing to read her life or death as undecidable, we deny the fiction its full power as a postmodern interpretive dilemma. This assumption plays into what might be posited as Moulthrop’s real thesis: syllogism in a corrupted (war time) information system is potentially tragic. A summary of theories and critical approaches relevant to the blank screen’s use as interstice together with sample engagements with relevant texts—reading Victory Garden, as per Wolfgang Iser’s phenomenological approach, Stanley Fish’s reader response theory, and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction—prove Victory Garden, to be a challenging but consistent literary breakdown (staged malfunction of reading habits). Ultimately, ineffability is shown to be a reading strategy and the action Aristotle characterizes as key to the definition of tragedy is seen as performed by the reader. Moulthrop dangles the question about Emily’s demise as a critical reading moment prone to corruption. The classical anagnorisis is not Emily’s; the revelation Moulthrop intends is reserved for the reader and is precipitated by the need to resolve aporia.