Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology"In this insightful and readable volume, Landow explores the relationship between contemporary literary and social theory and the latest advances in computer software."--Voice Literary Supplement. "A useful book for understanding the effect technology is having on scholarship."--Semiotic Review of Books. "Landow['s]... presentation is measured, experiential, lucid, moderate, and sensible. He merely points out that the concept hypertext' lets us test some concepts associated with critical theory, and gracefully shows how the technology is contributing to reconfigurations of text, author, narrative, and (literary) education."--Post Modern Culture. "Good news for teachers who are not too sensitive about their intellectual authority... Bad news for print culture."--Times Literary Supplement |
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... encounters on the screen are virtual texts . Using an analogy to optics , computer scientists speak of " virtual ... encounter on a computer screen exist as versions created specifically for them while an elec- tronic primary version ...
... encounters on the screen are virtual texts . Using an analogy to optics , computer scientists speak of " virtual ... encounter on a computer screen exist as versions created specifically for them while an elec- tronic primary version ...
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... encounter with a printed book . We would probably have taken the encounter as a rare privileged oppor- tunity , and we would also have approached the experience of reading this unique object with a very different set of assumptions than ...
... encounter with a printed book . We would probably have taken the encounter as a rare privileged oppor- tunity , and we would also have approached the experience of reading this unique object with a very different set of assumptions than ...
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... encounter ? Whereas Professor Jones experiences the great seventeenth - century epic situated within a field of relations and connections , her student encounters a far barer , less connected , reduced poem , most of whose allusions go ...
... encounter ? Whereas Professor Jones experiences the great seventeenth - century epic situated within a field of relations and connections , her student encounters a far barer , less connected , reduced poem , most of whose allusions go ...
Contents
The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept | 3 |
Vannevar Bush and the Memex | 14 |
The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology George P. Landow No preview available - 1992 |
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