Linking post-structuralist theory and developments in hypertext text technology, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology was for many the definitive work on hypertext during the 1990s and established hypertext as a field of serious critical discourse.
CONTENTS
1. Hypertext and Critical Theory
Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a ConceptOther Convergences: Intertextuality, Multivocality, and De-CenterednessVannevar Bush and the MemexVirtual Texts, Virtual Authors, and Literary ComputingThe Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical TheoryCause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?Analogues to the Gutenberg RevolutionPredictions
2. Reconfiguring the Text
From Text to HypertextProblems with Terminology: What Is the Object We Read, and What IsText in Hypertext?Verbal and Nonverbal TextVisual Elements in Print TextDispersed TextHypertextual Translation of Scribal Culture; or, The Electronic ManuscriptArgumentation, Organization, and RhetoricBeginnings and Endings in the Open TextBoundaries of the Open TextThe Status of the Text; Status in the TextHypertext and De-centrality: The Philosophical Grounding
3. Reconfiguring the Author
How I Am Writing This BookVirtual PresenceCollaborative Writing, Collaborative AuthorshipExamples of Collaboration in Intermedia
4. Reconfiguring Narrative
Hypertext and the Aristotelian Conception of PlotNarrative Beginnings and EndingsMichael Joyce¹s Afternoon: The Reader¹s Experience as Author
5. Reconfiguring Literary Education
Threats and PromisesReconfiguring the InstructorReconfiguring the StudentReconfiguring the Time of LearningReconfiguring Assignments and Methods of EvaluationExamples of Collaborative Learning from IntermediaReconceiving Canon and CurriculumWhat Chance Has Hypertext in Education?
6. The Politics of Hypertext: Who Controls the Text?
Answered Prayers; or, the Politics of ResistanceThe Marginalization of Technology and the Mystification of LiteratureThe Politics of Particular TechnologiesHypertext and the Politics of ReadingThe Political Vision of Hypertext; or, The Message in the MediumThe Politics of AccessAccess to the Text and the Author's Right (Copyright)