Hyper/text/theoryIn 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 Jurgen 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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a narrative device employed strictly to heighten tension, to create a sense of
suspenseful anticipation of the next developments in the "Relic" narrative. But my
encounter with the topographic map reveals the "Relic" strand to be limited to the
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a narrative device employed strictly to heighten tension, to create a sense of
suspenseful anticipation of the next developments in the "Relic" narrative. But my
encounter with the topographic map reveals the "Relic" strand to be limited to the
...
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I have, in a sense, a meta-script which also enables me to be comfortable with
the very inconclusiveness of my reading, with its inability to account for
everything I have discovered in WOE. I. Yellowlees Douglas Reading for the
Ending: ...
I have, in a sense, a meta-script which also enables me to be comfortable with
the very inconclusiveness of my reading, with its inability to account for
everything I have discovered in WOE. I. Yellowlees Douglas Reading for the
Ending: ...
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Our sense of arriving at closure is satisfied when we manage to resolve narrative
tensions and to minimize ambiguities, to explain puzzles, and to incorporate as
many of the narrative elements as possible into a coherent pattern — preferably ...
Our sense of arriving at closure is satisfied when we manage to resolve narrative
tensions and to minimize ambiguities, to explain puzzles, and to incorporate as
many of the narrative elements as possible into a coherent pattern — preferably ...
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Contents
Critical Theory in the Age | |
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory 51 | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Hyper/text/theory |
| Author | George P. Landow |
| Editor | George P. Landow |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801848377, 9780801848377 |
| Length | 377 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Programming / General Criticism Criticism, Textual Criticism, Textual/ Data processing Hypertext systems Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory |
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