The Text as a Scalable Structure

Abstract

Inspired by the fictional construction of Stephenson (2000), an "anfractuous" book able to answer reader's questions by self-expansion and ramification, and functioning on the principle "tell me more about this subject", our project deals with the construction of an interface allowing several levels of detail and implying different "scales" of textual representation. By revisiting a number of traditional narrative paradigms, the paper will discuss some new possible ways of storytelling determined by this kind of textual development and exploration. Greenblatt (2004)