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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... writing systems as dynamic , spatial , and antihierarchical.9 Bolter's description of our historical moment as " the late age of print " ( 2 ) suggests that our dreams of a new culture are implicated in a specific technologique : the ...
... writing on communication , memory , and thought . Writing is the first step in thought's losing control and gaining control of itself : losing control because , as Plato complains , writing removes the content from the living process of ...
... writing , but whatever form I gave my writing remains available . It cannot dominate the hypertext space and it cannot claim to totalize the meaning and role of the individual lexias , but it remains followable . Otherwise the hypertext ...
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Nonlinearity and Literary Theory | |
Wittgenstein Genette and the Readers Narrative | 5 |
Espen J Aarseth | |
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