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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... cause : events may gain traumatic significance by deferred action or retroaction , action working in reverse sequence to create a meaning that did not previously exist . Thus the way a story is ordered does not necessarily correspond to ...
... caused their violent ends . If the thrust of the narrative moves toward revealing the fates of Lisa and Andrew , it also works to reveal truths that Peter himself is too self- absorbed , insecure , or out - and - out terrified to admit ...
... cause - and - effect man : he kept at her astrology without mercy , telling her what she was supposed to believe , then denying it . " Tides , radio inter- ference , damned little else . There is no way for changes out there to produce ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
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