Hypertext 3.0 : critical theory and new media in an Era of Globalization / George P. Landow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landow, George P.

Contributor:

Landow, George P.

Series:

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Parallax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Literature and technology.

Hypertext systems.

Physical Description:

xviii, 436 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[Third edition].

Other Title:

Hypertext three point zero

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Summary:

From Intermedia to Microcosm, Storyspace, and the World Wide Web, Landow offers specific information about the kinds of hypertext, different modes of linking, attitudes toward technology, and the proliferation of pornography and gambling on the Internet. For the third edition he includes new material on developing Internet-related technologies, considering in particular their increasingly global reach and the social and political implications of this trend as viewed from a postcolonial perspective.

Contents:

Preface: Why Hypertext 3.0? xi

1 Hypertext: An Introduction

Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson? 1

The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept 2

Very Active Readers 6

Vannevar Bush and the Memex 9

Forms of Linking, Their Uses and Limitations 13

Linking in Open Hypermedia Systems: Vannevar Bush Walks the Web 22

Hypertext without Links? 27

The Place of Hypertext in the History of Information Technology 29

Interactive or Ergodic? 41

Baudrillard, Binarity, and the Digital 43

Books Are Technology, Too 46

Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution 49

2 Hypertext and Critical Theory

Textual Openness 53

Hypertext and Intertextuality 55

Hypertext and Multivocality 56

Hypertext and Decentering 56

Hypertext as Rhizome 58

The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory 62

Cause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence? 65

3 Reconfiguring the Text

From Text to Hypertext 69

The In Memoriam Web 71

New Forms of Discursive Prose-Academic Writing and Weblogs 77

Problems with Terminology: What Is the Object We Read, and What Is a Text in Hypertext? 82

Visual Elements in Print Text 85

Animated Text 89

Stretchtext 93

The Dispersed Text 98

Hypertextual Translation of Scribal Culture 99

A Third Convergence: Hypertext and Theories of Scholarly Editing 102

Hypertext, Scholarly Annotation, and the Electronic Scholarly Edition 103

Hypertext and the Problem of Text Structure 107

Argumentation, Organization, and Rhetoric 109

Beginnings in the Open Text 110

Endings in the Open Text 112

Boundaries of the Open Text 113

The Status of the Text, Status in the Text 118

Hypertext and Decentrality: The Philosophical Grounding 123

4 Reconfiguring the Author

Erosion of the Self 125

How the Print Author Differs from the Hypertext Author 131

Virtual Presence 135

Collaborative Writing, Collaborative Authorship 136

Examples of Collaboration in Hypertext 142

5 Reconfiguring Writing

The Problematic Concept of Disorientation 144

The Concept of Disorientation in the Humanities 146

The Love of Possibilities 148

The Rhetoric and Stylistics of Writing for E-Space; or, How Should We Write Hypertext? 151

Hypertext as Collage Writing 188

Is This Hypertext Any Good? Or, How Do We Evaluate Quality in Hypermedia? 198

6 Reconfiguring Narrative

Approaches to Hypertext Fiction-Some Opening Remarks 215

Hypertext and the Aristotelian Conception of Plot 218

Quasi-Hypertextuality in Print Text 219

Answering Aristotle: Hypertext and the Nonlinear Plot 221

Print Anticipations of Multilinear Narratives in E-Space 223

Narrative Beginnings and Endings 226

Michael Joyce's afternoon 229

Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl 234

Quibbling: A Feminist Rhizome Narrative 242

Storyworlds and Other Forms of Hypertext Narratives 245

Computer Games, Hypertext, and Narrative 250

Digitizing the Movies: Interactive versus Multiplied Cinema 254

Is Hypertext Fiction Possible? 264

7 Reconfiguring Literary Education

Threats and Promises 272

Reconfiguring the Instructor 275

Reconfiguring the Student 278

Learning the Culture of a Discipline 280

Nontraditional Students: Distant Learners and Readers outside Educational Institutions 281

The Effects of Hypermedia in Teaching and Learning 284

Reconfiguring Assignments and Methods of Evaluation 286

A Hypertext Exercise 287

Reconceiving Canon and Curriculum 292

Creating the New Discursive Writing 302

From Intermedia to the Web-Losses and Gains 309

Answered Prayers, or the Academic Politics of Resistance 312

What Chance Has Hypertext in Education? 313

Getting the Paradigm Right 314

8 The Politics of Hypertext: Who Controls the Text?

Can Hypertext Empower Anyone? Does Hypertext Have a Political Logic? 321

The Marginalization of Technology and the Mystification of Literature 330

The Politics of Particular Technologies 335

Technology as Prosthesis 336

The Political Vision of Hypertext; or, the Message in the Medium 343

Hypertext and Postcolonial Literature, Criticism, and Theory 345

Infotech, Empires, and Decolonization 347

Hypertext as Paradigm for Postcoloniality 351

Forms of Postcolonial Amnesia 354

Hypertext as Paradigm in Postcolonial Theory 356

The Politics of Access: Who Can Make Links, Who Decides What Is Linked? 358

Slashdot: The Reader as Writer and Editor in a Multiuser Weblog 362

Pornography, Gambling, and Law on the Internet-Vulnerability and Invulnerability in E-Space 364

Access to the Text and the Author's Right (Copyright) 367

Is the Hypertextual World of the Internet Anarchy or Big Brother's Realm? 376.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Hypertext 2.0. 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0.

ISBN:

0801882575

0801882567

9780801882562

9780801882579

OCLC:

58594991

Publisher Number:

99953372270

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