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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... nonlinear texts , many of which have no author ( or even reader ) in the traditional sense . After the tensions and misunderstandings caused by the intrusions of new computer - mediated textualities and the inevitable resistance to them ...
... nonlinear . Rather than accept that this paradoxical result undermines my linear - nonlinear distinction , I contend that by destroying its traversal function it ex- poses the inherent instability of the metaphysical concept of " the ...
... nonlinear access to information and nonlinear autonomous construction of narrative forms from pre- existing options ; or ( 2 ) these properties enable nonlinear access to different questions and to options that aid in the generation of ...
Contents
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 15 |
Michel de Certeaus Wandersmänner | 11 |
Copyright | |
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