"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, ...
In his book "Hypertext" George P. Landow described a radicaly new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory. Among the contributors, Charles Ess uses the work of Jurgen ...
Hypertext electronically linked texts) and hypermedia (the extension of linkages to visual and aural material) enable users to call up the usage in different time periods of a particular word, critical commentary, historically relevant facts or oral interpretations by different sets of actors. The essays in "Hypermedia and Literary Studies" ...
George Landow's widely acclaimed "Hypertext" was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as well as unprecedented control of what and how they read. In hypermedia, ...
The 16 essays collected in "The Digital Word" continue Landow and Delany's exploration of the new fluid, digitized text begun in "Hypermedia and Literary Studies" (1991), which focused on the linking of text, graphics or sound into structures typically bound within a single computer or local-area network. This book explores the larger realm of the ...
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