Digital Poetics and hypertext: an essay on Patchwork Girl and Storyspace

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  • Raquel Longhi

Keywords:

Hypertext, Digital Poetics, Storyspace

Abstract

This article aims to examine hypertext writing, through a computer program, Storyspace, and a piece of fiction in hypertext, Patchwork Girl, generated by that software. Hypertext, as a writing technology, must be studied through its technical characteristics, and how these influence writing in and the new poetics in digital media. In this essay, technical and literary characteristics of the software have been analyzed. In Patchwork Girl, we have verified material and literary features and their relationship with the software. This essay focuses the concept of digital poetics, meta-hypertext, and finally concludes that the technical features of the software are directly responsible for the quality of the work analyzed here.

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Author Biography

Raquel Longhi

Doutora em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo PUC/SP Professora na Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA) Currículo Lattes

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2006-12-09

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LONGHI, R. Digital Poetics and hypertext: an essay on Patchwork Girl and Storyspace. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 11, n. 1, p. 121–135, 2006. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/115. Acesso em: 13 may. 2025.

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2005)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Raquel Longhi

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