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Hyper/text/theory

This text examines the implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory. It explores hypertext's potential for true democratization; the relation of hypertext and political power; and what hypertext implies for philosophy and philosophical discourse
Print Book, English, ©1994
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801848377, 9780801848384, 0801848377, 0801848385
30319895
What's a critic to do? : Critical theory in the age of hypertext / George P. Landow
Nonlinearity and literary theory / Espen J. Aarseth
Wittgenstein, Genette, and the reader's narrative in hypertext / Gunnar Liestøl
The screener's maps : Michel de Certeau's "Wandersmänner" and Paul Auster's hypertextual detective / Mireille Rosello
"How do I stop t his thing?" : Closure and indeterminacy in interactive narratives / J. Yellowlees Douglas
Conclusions / Terence Harpold
The political computer : hypertext, democracy, and Habermas / Charles Ess
Physics and hypertext : liberation and complicity in art and pedagogy / Martin E. Rosenberg
Rhizome and resistance : hypertext and the dreams of a new culture / Stuart Moulthrop
Socrates in the labyrinth / David Kolb
The Miranda warnings : an experiment in hyperrhetoric / Gregory L. Ulmer