DANCING WITH PROTEUS: A DYNAMIC SPATIOTEMPORAL NETWORK MODEL FOR READING MICHAEL JOYCE'S HYPERTEXT FICTION, TWELVE BLUE

Much may be said about the differences between hypertext fiction and traditional print fiction, and rejecting the novelty of the medium and its literary merit are now a thing of the past. The present article discusses the connection between the hypertext link as the most distinctive element of hypertext fiction with the combining of time and space into a continuum. Studying Michael Joyces hypertext fiction, Twelve Blue, building on the network models of Michel Foucault and Fredric Jameson and the network interaction model of Marie-Laure Ryan, and using Francois Lyotards concept of the event this paper proposes a more complete and more dynamic model which may be used to describe the flow of space and time in hypertext fiction.