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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... Hyper- media , " the metaphors used in hypermedia are rapidly solidifying into conventions and thus escaping theoretical scrutiny . The travel metaphor , " used to characterize the retrieval of . . . information , " is problematic ...
... Hyper- text '91 ( New York : Association for Computing Machinery , 1991 ) . More fundamentally , Joseph T. Jaynes's " Limited Freedom : Linear Reflec- tions on Nonlinear Texts " criticizes the nonlinearity and lack of structure in ...
... hyper- media systems do become regular features of working life in organiza- tions like Boeing , then this problem ... Hyper- text : Liberation and Complicity in Art and Pedagogy . " Rosenberg regis- ters a crucial dissent from the ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
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