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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... text ) ; and because of the temporal instability of all of these variables , texts are processes impossible to terminate and reduce . This perspec- tive lets us include nonlinear texts , many of which have no author ( or even reader ) ...
... text itself . " Thus , Agrippa becomes nonlinear only if we choose to accept the " text - behind - the - text " as more real than the physical object that can refuse to be read . As for the rest of our categories , Agrippa is a rather ...
... nonlinear text types , from ancient inscriptions to sophisticated computer programs based on the latest semantic research . I have not tried to present an exhaustive em- pirical survey of such types or to give a detailed historical ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
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