Hyper/Text/TheoryGeorge P. Landow In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought together a distinguished group of authorities to explore more fully the implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory. Among the contributors, Charles Ess uses the work of Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School to examine hypertext's potential for true democratization. Stuart Moulthrop turns to Deleuze and Guattari as a point of departure for a study of the relation of hypertext and political power. Espen Aarseth places hypertext within a framework created by other forms of electronic textuality. David Kolb explores what hypertext implies for philosophy and philosophical discourse. Jane Yellowlees Douglas, Gunnar Liestol, and Mireille Rosello use contemporary theory to come to terms with hypertext narrative. Terrence Harpold investigates the hypertextual fiction of Michael Joyce. Drawing on Derrida, Lacan, and Wittgenstein, Gregory Ulmer offers an example of the new form of writing hypertextuality demands. |
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... argument analysis established by Stephen Toulmin , Habermas argues that " under controlled conditions approximating ... argument — that is , a willingness to recognize valid reasons , whether in order to accept or to criticize these , in ...
... argument and fluidity are always linked . Just as we cannot say that argument absorbs the fluid discourse , so we cannot say that the surrounding discourse is primary in the sense that it has some special nonargumentative structure of ...
... argument is always possible , and needed , but this is not the same as saying that the process is structured as a linear argument . The achievement of consensus ( communal will - formation ) comes through dialogue and rational argument ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 15 |
Michel de Certeaus Wandersmänner | 11 |
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