Hyper/text/theoryIn 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 Jurgen 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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... removes any "residual expectations" I may have concerning the narrative: I
know that the narrative physically has nothing left to reveal after I have finished
my reading of it and that I am free to begin to make sense of the work as a whole.
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... removes any "residual expectations" I may have concerning the narrative: I
know that the narrative physically has nothing left to reveal after I have finished
my reading of it and that I am free to begin to make sense of the work as a whole.
7 /.
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a narrative device employed strictly to heighten tension, to create a sense of
suspenseful anticipation of the next developments in the "Relic" narrative. But my
encounter with the topographic map reveals the "Relic" strand to be limited to the
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a narrative device employed strictly to heighten tension, to create a sense of
suspenseful anticipation of the next developments in the "Relic" narrative. But my
encounter with the topographic map reveals the "Relic" strand to be limited to the
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tive's rich field of possibilities. I have, in a sense, a meta-script which also
enables me to be comfortable with the very inconclusiveness of my reading, with
its inability to account for everything I have discovered in WOE. Reading for the
Ending: ...
tive's rich field of possibilities. I have, in a sense, a meta-script which also
enables me to be comfortable with the very inconclusiveness of my reading, with
its inability to account for everything I have discovered in WOE. Reading for the
Ending: ...
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NONLINEARITY | |
Wittgenstein Cenette and the Readers Narrative | |
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