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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... better than the critic . In a hypertext environment , there would be no way of keeping the atten- tion of such a screener : given the slightest chance , he would move away from what he identifies as the critical text and spend the rest ...
... better sense of exactly what it is that Peter saw on his way to work . When we look at the accident through Peter's eyes , we see only the scene of the accident revisited by him several hours later — and we cannot begin to account for ...
... better to speak of new figures of discourse rather than new forms . " The task that confronts us as writers in the new medium is precisely to discover effective new figures . " 10 One could object that hypertext makes closed works ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
Copyright | |
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