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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... ment . Reading across the link - that is , reading more than one lexia in a hypertext - introduces a discontinuity that cannot be accounted for in a spatial model of the text's narrative structure , a point of singularity where ...
... at least in absolute terms . Since the hyperdocu- ment would always be in flux , it could not be constituted as a series of 305 Rhizome and Resistance Stuart Moulthrop 306 • discursive stabilities but would in actual.
... ment has to be invented out of the old one , involving a new form and a new style of reasoning . The process of invention cannot occur in gener- al , but , as in the passage from the oral to the alphabetic , must evolve in terms of a ...
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Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 15 |
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