afternoon, a story

Afternoon, a story is a work of electronic literature written in 1987 by American author Michael Joyce. It was published by Eastgate Systems in 1990 and is known as the first hypertext fiction. Afternoon was first shown to the public as a demonstration of the hypertext authoring system Storyspace, announced in 1987 at the first Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext conference in a paper by Michael Joyce and Jay David Bolter.[1] In 1990, it was published on diskette and distributed in the same form by Eastgate Systems. The hypertext fiction tells the story of Peter, a recently divorced man who witnessed a car crash that may or may not have involved his ex-wife and their son.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
An interview with Maria Engberg	David Thomas Prater, Maria Engberg	2011
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions	Astrid Ensslin	2007
Collective Memory and the Development of a Field: Building the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base	Scott Rettberg	2012
Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media	Jeremy Douglass	2007
Conclusion: Whither American Fiction?	Jessica Pressman	2012
Conclusions	Terry Harpold	1994
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond	Raine Koskimaa	2000
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections	Luciana Gattass	2011
Digital Media	Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg	2010
Do You Think You're Part of This? Digital Texts and the Second Person Address	Jill Walker Rettberg	2000
Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue	Anthony Enns	2001
E-lit context as Records Continuum: the “lost” Michael Joyce’s Afternoon Italian edition and the archival perspective	Paola Pizzichini, Mauro Carassai	2010
E-literature	Joseph Tabbi	2011
Electronic Literature Publishing and Distribution in Europe	Markku Eskelinen, Giovanna Di Rosario	2012
Electronic Literature Without a Map	Markku Eskelinen	2008
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary	N. Katherine Hayles	2008
Elektronisk litteratur i Norden	Hans Kristian Rustad	2008
Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path	Terry Harpold	2008
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World	Jill Walker Rettberg	2003
From Revisi(tati)on to Retro-Intentionalization	Astrid Ensslin	2010
From Storyspace to Browsers: Translating afternoon, a story into Polish and XML	Mariusz Pisarski	2012
Hypertext Fiction from 1987-1999	Jill Walker Rettberg	2010
Hypertext Fiction in the Twilight Zone	Raine Koskimaa	1998
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology	George P. Landow	1992
Hyperworks: On Digital Literature and Computer Games	Anna Gunder	2004
Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision	N. Katherine Hayles	2007
Interview with Michael Joyce	Gabriela Redwine, Michael Joyce	2009
Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum	2008
Memory at work in Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, and Mark Amerika's Grammatron	Arnaud Regnauld	2011
Michael Joyce. Polski pisarz: Michael Joyce, Czesław Miłosz i hipertekst. Postgutenbergowskie nadzieje księgi różności.		2012
Narration, Intrigue, and Reader Positioning in Electronic Narratives	Daniel Punday	2012
Patterns of Hypertext	Mark Bernstein	1998
Philosophical Labyrinths in Cybertexts	Miriam Havemann	2009
Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon	Jill Walker Rettberg	1999
Remediating English Pedagogy: Nurturing immersive, complex and creative literary experiences for students in contemporary times	Angela A. Thomas	2012
Rytm jako kategoria opisu e-literatury	Emilia Branny-Jankowska	2011
Stuck in a Loop? Dialogue in Hypertext Fiction	Thomas Bronwen	2007
The End of Books	Robert Coover	1992
The Genealogy of a Creative Community: Why is Afternoon the "Grandaddy" of Hypertext Fiction?	Jill Walker Rettberg	2011
The Interactive Onion: Layers of User Participation in Digital Narrative Texts	Marie-Laure Ryan	2011
The Machine in the Text, and the Text in the Machine	Manuel Portela	2010
The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction	Alice Bell	2010
Three-Dimensional Dementia: Hypertext Fiction and the Aesthetics of Forgetting	Carolyn Guertin	1999
Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext	Stuart Moulthrop	1995
Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1993
Writing for the New Millennium: The Birth of Electronic Literature	Robert Kendall	1995
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing	Jay David Bolter	1991
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 2nd ed.	Jay David Bolter	2001
“How Do I Stop This Thing?” Closure And Indeterminacy In Interactive Narratives	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1994

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource	Author	Teaching Resource Type	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2011)	Jill Walker Rettberg, Patricia Tomaszek, Mark C. Marino, Rita Raley	Syllabus	2011
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2012)	Davin Heckman, Patricia Tomaszek	Syllabus	2012

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