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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... environment . Linking , in other words , produces a network organization , and both individual lexia and complete metatexts created originally for use within a hypertext environment will tend , I predict , to take this form , with ...
... environment.27 In hypermedia re- sources , the user can read , copy , and navigate through a large multi- media data base with hypertextual linking , but the information re- mains fixed ; new documents cannot be added , and the ...
... environment constrain our ability to manipulate its supposedly dis- tinct logic and rhetoric . ( It is a virtual environment , yet it seems real because it brings structures of thought to the surface of a thinker's attention by ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
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