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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... Habermas's theory of communicative action sets out to establish a notion of rationality- what he calls " communicative reason " -as an alternative to the Carte- sian paradigm . According Habermas , communicative reason can be discerned ...
... Habermas's theory , thus providing an instance of the sort of empirical verification that he calls for as part of his effort to resolve the tension between theory and practice . Third , Habermas's notion of communicative rationality ...
... Habermas's dis- course ethic further makes clear that the democratization claim of hy- pertext depends not only on the hardware and software design but also on the larger social context of use . Rules 2c and 3 in particular make the ...
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Critical Theory in the Age | 5 |
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | 15 |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 15 |
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