Hyper/text/theory

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George P. Landow, Professor George P Landow
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - Literary Criticism - 377 pages
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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 Jrgen 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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I make this point because many people confronting electronic textuality confuse
the experience of reading it with the particular technology on which it is read .
One encounters two forms of reservations about reading electronic text : “ You
can ' t ...
Page 67
paths readers take through the hypertext , one reading can correspond to the
reading of a single chapter of Lord Jim . Finding no clear - cut divisions such as
chapters between episodes or narrative strands , readers of interactive narratives
 ...
Page 67
What , precisely , triggered my sense of having come to some sort of closure ? My
sense that I did not need to continue reading Afternoon ? Most obviously , I
became conscious of my readings having satisfied one of the primary quests
outlined ...

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Contents

Critical Theory in the
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory
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Espen J Aarseth
67
Copyright

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TitleHyper/text/theory
EditorsGeorge P. Landow, Professor George P Landow
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized31 Mar 2008
ISBN0801848377, 9780801848377
Length377 pages
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