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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... political crises of the 1920s and 1930s - the emergence of fascism in the West ( including , of course , Nazism in Germany itself ) and the rise of Stalinism in the East . These failures in the quest for Enlighten- ment democracy force ...
... political resistance becomes meaningless . Why be political if there is no ideal to be fought over , no subject to be emancipated ? " ( 1990 , 205 ) . Moreover , such relativism simply reinforces the original charge of ide- ology ...
... political terms . Most discussions of politics and hypertext concern the ways in which the technology of hypertext alters the realm of information and its modes , as well as the ways in which institutions , as forms of technology ...
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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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