Book Unbound

Creative Work

Author: 
John Cayley
Year: 
1995
Publisher: 
wellSweep Press
Web URL: 
Author's description and download link in Postmodern Culture
Language: 
English
Publication Type: 
Published on the Web (online journal)
Record Status: 
Not yet reviewed
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hypertexthypercardgenerative1990sMacdownload
Description (in English): 

"Book Unbound" is a "collocational cybertext," a self-assembling poetic collage that can be read in two ways: either automatically in the "bound" mode, or in an "unbound" mode that allows readers to extract and recycle words from its recombinant text stream. It is a HyperCard stack (Mac only, HyperCard program not required) available for downloading.

Technical notes: 

Hypercard, download, Mac.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Year
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth 1997
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections Luciana Gattass 2011
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