Abstract
This paper explores the new possibilities of the novel in the context of technologies of computer hypertext. One of the central arguments of the paper is that the operational logic of the novel can be made to approximate that of a web of hypertext links. The author also argues that the hope of the renaissance of the novel lies in the technologically enhanced speed of the traffic in models between smooth space and striated space.
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Qi-ping, Y. New possibilities brought about by hypertext. J. Zheijang Univ.-Sci. 2, 476–480 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1631/BF02840572
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