jorge nathan matias presented a lecture about “Tragedy in Electronic Literature” which used 3 text adventures that play with the medium to illustrate its point:
RENDITION by nespresso (2007)
FATE by victor gijsbers (2007)
RAMESES by stephen bond (2000)
he has a website with slides and video at http://www.natematias.com/cam/trag-elit/#
but its difficult to navigate so a video of the 15-min presentation is now on google video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7851700578416541552
direct link to the slides:
http://www.natematias.com/cam/trag-elit/TragPresentation.html
link to the PDF of the slides from emily short’s discussion on similar
themes at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Hypertext 2007
conference:
http://www.natematias.com/cam/trag-elit/Emily-Short-Tragedy.pdf
(sadly a broken link - anybody got a working link for this last one?)