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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... interests Habermas , precisely because it examines argument with a view towards the disputes between absolutist positions ( that insist with dogmatic certainty on the universal validity of a given set of claims ) and relativist claims ...
... interests of particular communities . In this way , two different communities may hold to the same rules of discourse and so meet the universally valid standard for discourse and democratic interchange . Nonetheless , reflecting precise ...
... interests of particular partici- pants , the discourse ethic avoids the absolute intolerance of dogma- tism.40 The discourse ethic thus articulates the communicative conditions of democratic polity in such a way as to strike a ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
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