Disorientation and Authorial Intentions
Despite the availability of choice, the author can still exerts influence over the reader through not only the kind of choices given to the reader but through the kind of choices withheld from the reader. For instance, the author may decide to withhold an index page or a site map from the readers. One reason for this is that empowering the readers with a bird’s eye view of the fiction would spoil the story. Another reason is that the author really intends to give the reader an experience of disorientation as part of the reading process.
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The experience of reading hyperfiction by
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