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's Pages
These are collections of
Workbook
pieces grouped one way or another.
Some imply extended narratives, others are unstructured.
Nearly all 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.
There's also a good
Wikipedia
article on TriadCity: