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Vladimir Nabokov’s  Pale Fire :  The Lost ‘Father of All Hypertext Demos’? ACM Hypertext 2011 9 th  June 2011 Simon Rowberry [email_address]
 
Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.
 
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Pale Fire offers the familiar paratext, but with a new dicta…
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504 explicit connections 37% notes referring to the poem 63% notes referencing other notes 69% of all references coming from the index

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Lost ‘Father of all hypertext demos’?

  • 1. Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire : The Lost ‘Father of All Hypertext Demos’? ACM Hypertext 2011 9 th June 2011 Simon Rowberry [email_address]
  • 2.  
  • 3. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.
  • 4.  
  • 5.
  • 6. Pale Fire offers the familiar paratext, but with a new dicta…
  • 7.
  • 8. 504 explicit connections 37% notes referring to the poem 63% notes referencing other notes 69% of all references coming from the index

Editor's Notes

  1. Disclaimer – link to Nelson What this paper is really about
  2. Daniel Carter’s visualization 4 major sections Introduce 3 main characters Marta Pellerdi Literary Friendship (Wilson, c.f. Boswell Johnson) Yev-Gen-iy On-nyegg-in Authorship debate
  3. Rus trans. New land Swift + Pope ref. – Pope particularly – At Greenland, Zembla or God knows where’ (Essay on Man) Xanadu – Zembla comparison (North and East) real but mythical (Nova Zembla mentioned in reality) But why in 2011?
  4. Maria Fischer – Traumsgedanken 2011 3d spatial ht N. Katherine Hayles – RAD Cf books pre-Gutenberg Marginalia + annotation Marco Polo 100+ manuscripts but no original
  5. Methodology NOT system
  6. Precursors in this form Jay David Bolter – index – how PF differs Commentary and search Search/filter – key to scale of ht and lit crit Fits into Nab’s overall thoughts despite his claims to the contrary
  7. Autonomy – TS Eliot Macrotext Weak ties Transition to the ht reader – evidence in Nab scholarship