Cybertext

Cybertext
Stylistic originsCybernetics, Post-structuralist literary theory
FormatsDigital
Related topics
Hypertext, Interactive fiction, Ergodic literature, Electronic literature

Cybertext as defined by Espen Aarseth in 1997 is a type of ergodic literature where the user traverses the text by doing nontrivial work.[1]

  1. ^ Eskelinen, Markku (2012). Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory. London: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 22. ISBN 9781441124388.