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This book offers a new critical approach for the analysis of hypertext fiction. The term ‘hypertext’, coined within the work of Nelson (1965, 1970, 1974, 1981), can be most simply defined as ‘non-sequential writ-ing’ (Nelson, 1974).
15 lis 2021 · But what is hypertext literature and how does it fit in the genre? Coined by Theodore Nelson, a pioneer in the computer industry in the 1960s, the term hypertext describes “non-sequential writing — text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen.”
Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction.
5 gru 1994 · 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...
2 sie 2021 · George Landow and Paul Delaney proclaimed that “hypertext creates an almost embarrassingly literal reification or embodiment” of poststructural theory, and in Landow’s genre-defining book Hypertext, he names the web page unit of a hypertext work a lexia after Barthes’s term for small discrete chunks of texts.
15 wrz 2023 · Craig Baehr. References (57) Abstract. Hypertext, defined at the most essential level as “linked text,” and the hyperlink (shortened to simply “link”) serves as the foundation of much writing...
This article briefly surveys the changing theoretical perspectives on text from structuralism to poststructuralism and how they are subsequently accounted for by hypertext theorists to comprehend the emerging genre called hypertext fiction. Some theoretical issues concerning the reading of this genre also will be discussed.
