Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Foreword: the author as reader: Editors’ introduction
- Section 2 Reader development: promotions and partnerships: Editors’ introduction
- Section 3 Works of imagination: Editors’ introduction
- Section 4 Future directions: Editors’ introduction
- Section 5 Afterword: the reader as author: Editors’ introduction
- Index
Section 3 - Works of imagination: Editors’ introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Foreword: the author as reader: Editors’ introduction
- Section 2 Reader development: promotions and partnerships: Editors’ introduction
- Section 3 Works of imagination: Editors’ introduction
- Section 4 Future directions: Editors’ introduction
- Section 5 Afterword: the reader as author: Editors’ introduction
- Index
Summary
This section examines works of imagination and their impact, and developing ways of accessing them.
The first chapter in this section investigates the concept of rewriting existing stories as hypertext works. This process, among other things, provides the reader with the possibility of selecting multiple endings to works of literature. It explains the technical and literary issues involved in this process and uses the author's hypertext rewriting of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to illustrate the possibilities.
This is followed by a consideration of the ways in which a new genre of futuristic fiction for young readers, more specifically for teenagers, has emerged since the late 1960s. The authorial premise is that young people today want to know about the dire consequences of human behaviours, and that they wish to address their fears for the future through reading dystopian-type fiction. This chapter provides a fascinating insight into an increasingly popular fiction genre.
The final contribution is by an established working poet and performer. He earns his living writing, publishing and presenting his work anywhere and everywhere it is possible to do so. Life as a full-time writer and performer, although very challenging, can be very rewarding. In this uplifting chapter he takes us through a diarized period in his life and includes a number of his poems for good measure.
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- Reader Development in PracticeBringing Literature to Readers, pp. 97 - 100Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2008