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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... tropes that hypertext theorists resort to in order to polemi- cize the capacity of hypertext to liberate its users , we may witness these exclusive yet complicitous impulses and thus render problematic those polemics . Like Nietzsche's ...
... Tropes are " inexpungeable from discourse in the human sciences . " 8 For Jacques Derrida , tropes reflect a tolerance for a " provisional loss of meaning " to arrive at " what is proper . " 9 Tropes , then , demonstrate their truth ...
... tropes in order to make explicit and then demystify the claims implied by those tropes . Hypertext and Physics Tropes An environment for software design with pedagogical as well as aes- thetic implications , hypertext has attracted ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
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