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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... distinction between reversible and irreversible sys- tems , and the usefulness of that distinction for evaluating the claims made for hypertext , we must question the assumption that we have freedom to wander the topology of hypertext ...
... distinction between what the popular understanding construes as old and new physics , and on the popular appropriation of tropes spe- cific to that opposition . This distinction is a false one , and our popular culture's celebration of ...
... distinction between authors and readers . " In general , the Boeing proposal seems about as far from Deleuze and Guattari as one could imagine , except for this one striking design specification . If the distinction between author and ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
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