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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... closure to our readings of narratives ? Do we read narratives to satisfy our need for the closure denied to us in our every- day lives , as both Conrad and Benjamin have argued ? Is closure essen- tial to the pleasure we take in reading ...
... closure affects reading at a local level . Do we read for closure anyway , even though the structure of hypertext narratives may displace it ? Can we read entirely without a sense of closure , and , if we do , can the displacement of ...
... closure as the single entity that confers cohesion and significance on narratives in a way that strongly suggests that the experience of narrative closure numbers among the principal pleasures of reading narratives - at once showing us ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | |
Michel de Certeaus Wandersmänner | 11 |
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