"Banal Story": A Hypermedia Critical Edition
by Quimby Melton
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"'Banal Story': A Hypermedia Critical Edition" features a reading of the overlooked -- and atypical -- Ernest Hemingway short story, a critical bibliography of relevant secondary sources, and a remixed "all text" edition of the story itself. An unauthorized, eclectic conflation of three editions of the story, the "Banal Story" all text is as much visual art as literary artifact.
More broadly, the project illustrates the radical possibilities hypermedia offers 21st century manuscript studies and material textual scholarship.
Citation: Melton, Quimby. 20 April 2014. ""Banal Story": A Hypermedia Critical Edition." SCRIPTjr.nl. https://scriptjr.nl/articles/banal-story (accessed [PST / -8:00]).
Updated: April 20, 2014 at 12:28 pm (PST / -8:00)
Quimby Melton lives in Southern California where he directs operations for his boutique hypermedia design firm Studio Hyperset, manages a raging narrative creation/consumption habit, cultivates the Victorian "gentleman adventurer" ideal, and edits SCRIPTjr.nl. A graduate of the Universities of Georgia (BA, cum laude, '00) and Nevada, Las Vegas (MA, '03; PhD, '08), Quimby studied Anglo-American literature, 20th century art and music, and various new media technologies. He's published work in Bright Lights Film Journal, SCRIPTjr.nl, Zouch, and other publications and has written many "closeted" screenplays of his own, which, admittedly, remain so less out of necessity than as a result of consequence.