The Poetics of a Cyclic Directed Graph

Year: 2017 Authors: Courtney Huse Wika; Daniel May

Core claim

A balanced digraph can function as a poetic structure that both constrains and multiplies meaning through reader choice and graph-walk combinatorics.

Topics

multiple-choice poetry, reader interactivity, graph-walk counting, free verse structure

Domains

graph theory, combinatorics, adjacency matrix, directed cycles, poetry, literary design, interactive narrative, poetics

Methods

graph-based composition, cycle enumeration, adjacency matrix counting, formal literary analysis

Media

directed graph, stanzas, table of narrative choices, poem text

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