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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... never master the total text , which thereby becomes what in Aarseth's essay in this volume terms " a read- erless ... never read all the text and then represent themselves as masters of the text as do critics in print text . True , one ...
... never fully foresee its consequences , i.e. , the way it will transform the existing symbolic space : the act is a rupture after which " nothing remains the same . " Which is why , although History can always be explained , accounted ...
... never know precisely when , and according to what configuration , slime mold cells will spontaneously aggregate ... never be observable with any certainty , and therefore the specific pattern of self - organization can never be predicted ...
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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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