noun
1 a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
2 a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
3 a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage.
verb [with object]
• portray (someone) in the style of a vignette.
• produce (a photograph) in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject.
DERIVATIVES
vignettist | -ˈyetist | noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in vignette (sense 3 of the noun) ; also as an architectural term denoting a carved representation of a vine): from French, diminutive of vigne 'vine'.
— Apple's American English dictionary for Macintosh
Mark is a pioneer of algorithmic, nonlinear, and computer-mediated narrative,
whose work is highly regarded by the five or six people in the world who care about algorithmic,
nonlinear, and computer-mediated narrative.
His formal experiments, poetry and vignettes have appeared in Big Bridge, Epiphany, Word Riot,
the SoMa Literary Review, Inkburns, Cathexis Northwest Press, Comrades and elsewhere.
His work is cited by
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
as its culminating example of literary Postmodernism, meaning that,
according to Cambridge University,
the history of western literature begins with Homer and ends with Mark.
Mark very much enjoys saying that out loud.
Mark's Pages
These collections of
Workbook
pieces are grouped to imply extended narratives, or not.
Much of this work attempts in some way to avoid linearity.
This piece
has more.
A large-scale textual virtual world.
In my opinion, textual virtual worlds fulfill the formal and thematic agendas of Postmodernism.
Along with other scholarly fora,
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
agrees, citing TriadCity as its culminating example of literary Postmodernism.
This is further explained
here
on the SmartMonsters website.
