Notes and Quotes: Koskimaa on page 299

Notes and Quotes

Raine Koskimaa (beginning on page 299)

These Waves of Girls:  http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/

Digital culture courses provide a situation where all those phenomena that do not neatly fall into the traditional disciplinary fields can be addressed (300).

Digital culture is, in essence, so fundamentally global that it is highly beneficial to have a truly international student body (300).

One’s life story is always, to some extent, constructed in the act of writing (302).

Print fiction has the underlying assumption that a story is read in a linear manner from start to finish but hypertext fiction does not have this assumption (303).

Hypertextual structure and narrative structure are two separate levels of hypernarrative and the former is the basis for the narration and sets certain limits to it without determining it in any way (304).

During the short history of hypertextual practices there has been a strong connection to the idea of associative writing (305).

The sound of glass in the broken thermos activates in an associative manner the memory of the event on the school bus (305).

The hypertext serves both to simulate the associative working of the narrator’s memory and to present a way for the reader to follow potential associations (306).

Casual and temporal logic is hard—if not impossible—to maintain in hypertext (306).

Whereas linear narrative can be seen as power discourse, multilinear narration bears the potential of challenging this by building up a network of rivaling voices of others and avoiding the one dominant ideology altogether (308).

These Waves of Girls is a story of the growing-up of a girl but also the growing-up of hypertext fiction (308).