Hypertext: An Overview
Definitions
- A General Definition
- Modes of Hypertext (to be added inHypertext 2.0)
Components
- Node, lexia
- Barthes's term
Link
- link
- blurs edges of text
- creates multisequentiality
- shifts textual boundaries
- Path
- trails or sets of links
- reader chooses
- in Memex
- Web
- Network
- four definitions
- web as network
- document sets
- sets of electronically linked computers
- docuverse, metatext
- critical theory paradigm
- in physical sciences
Textuality
- assemblage
- decentered
- open
- blurred boundaries
- Derrida and textual openness
- fluidity, changeability
- multivocal
- intertextuality
- nonlinearity, a-linearity, and multilinearity
- writerly versus readerly
Authorship
- authorship
- authorial property
- collaboration
- notions of self
- changed role of reader
Virtuality
- fundamental
- not binary opposition
Compared to other Information Technologies
- orality
- manuscript culture
- print
- reading Hypertext compared to reading an work with notes
- Barthes's notions of print textuality
- Joyce's Gerty
- Derrida's end of the book
- microfilm
- cinema
- electronic
Cultural Context: Postmodernism
- Baudrillard
- Pompidou Center Project for decentered Paris
Literature
Literary & Critical Theory
- an Overview
- Parallels between Hypertext and Literary Theory
- Hypertext embodies
Philosophy & Religion
- Biblical Typology
- Hypertext Bibles
- Rorty
Technology & Physical Sciences
Education: Teaching and Learning
- students
- teachers
- institutions
- resources
Political Context and Implications
