Hyper/text/theoryGeorge P. Landow, Professor George 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 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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Axial versus Network-structured Hypertext 2 3 Hypertext webs, whether read on
stand-alone systems or on networks, can have two fundamentally different kinds
of structures, the first closely reliant upon that of the linear book and the second ...
The 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 (customized) routes. Hypertext then has the potential to liberate
readers ...
Returning to the relationships of linear and nonlinear and tem- i06.. poral and
spatial, one must distinguish between nonlinearity in time and nonlinearity in
space. Nonlinearity in time is imaginary; it is a fundamental contradiction of terms
and ...