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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... linear chain provided by the author in traditional texts is thus replaced by a nonlinear constellation of text chunks from which the reader can choose individualized ( cus- tomized ) routes . Hypertext then has the potential to liberate ...
... linear , at least the time that is required to read and write hypertexts . Reading and writing are linear phenomena ; they are sequential and chronological , conditioned by the durative ordering of time , although their positions as ...
... linear text and hypertext : It is a mistake to think of conventional texts , and particularly expository teaching texts , as being purely linear . Text linguists ... have shown how , under a super- ficially linear form , authors may ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | |
Michel de Certeaus Wandersmänner | 11 |
Copyright | |
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