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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... metaphor and metaphor as travel is almost impossible : " In modern Athens , the vehicles of mass transportation are called met- aphorai . To go to work or come home , one takes a " metaphor " -a bus or a train . Stories could also take ...
... metaphor for the structure of the story - and of fiction itself . I also recall that when I first read " Lost in the Funhouse , " in an undergraduate writing course to which I came already equipped with three years of studying modern ...
... metaphor associating tor- ture with the search for truth in the alphabetic apparatus . Her focus is the Greek term basanos . " It means first of all the touchstone used to test gold for purity ; the Greeks extended its meaning to denote ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
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