Introduction: Why Hypertext 3.0?
1. Hypertext: An Introduction
- Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson
- The Definition of Hypertext and the History of the Concept
- Very Active Readers
- Vannevar Bush and the Memex
- Virtual Texts, Virtual Authors, and Literary Computing
- Forms of Linking, Their Uses and Limitations
- Linking in Open Hypermedia Systems: Vannevar Bush Walks the Web
- Hypertext without Links?
- The Place of Hypertext in the History of Information Technology
- Interactive or Ergodic?
- Baudrillard, Binarity, and the Digital
- Books Are Technology, Too
- Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution
2. Hypertext and Critical Theory
- Textual Openness
- Hypertext and Intertextuality
- Hypertext and Multivocality
- Hypertext and Decentering
- Hypertext as Rhizome
- Hypertext as Feminist Writing
- The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory
- Cause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?
- Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution
- Predictions
3. Reconfiguring the Text
- From Text to Hypertext
- The In Memoriam Web
- New Forms of Discursive Prose — Academic Writing and Weblogs
- Problems with Terminology: What Is the Object We Read, and
- What Is a Text in Hypertext?
- Verbal and Nonverbal Text
- Visual Elements in Print Text
- Animated Text
- Stretchtext
- The Fragmented Text
- Dispersed Text
- Hypertextual Translation of Scribal Culture
- A Third Convergence: Hypertext and Theories of Scholarly Editing
- Hypertext, Scholarly Annotation, and the Electronic Scholarly Edition
- Hypertext and the Problem of Text Structure
- Argumentation, Organization, and Rhetoric
- Beginnings in the Open Text
- Boundaries of the Open Text
- The Status of the Text; Status in the Text
- Hypertext and Decentrality: The Philosophical Grounding of
- the Medium's Openness or Unfinishedness: Derrida, Bakhtin
4 Reconfiguring the Author
- Erosion of the Self
- How the Print Author Differs from the Hypertext Author
- How I Am Writing This Book
- Virtual Presence
- Collaborative Writing, Collaborative Authorship
- Examples of Collaboration in Hypertext
5. Reconfiguring Writing
- The Problematic Concept of Disorientation
- The Concept of Disorientation in the Humanities
- The Love of Possibilities
- The Rhetoric and Stylistics of Writing for E-space; or, How Should We Write Hypertext?
- General Observations
- System-Generated Means of Reader-Orientation
- Keeping (the) Track: Where've I been, What did I read?
- Dynamic and Static Tables of Contents
- Suppose You Could Have Everything? — The Intermedia Web View and Some Partial Analogues
- Author-Created Orientation Devices: Overviews
- Gleamware
- Author-Created Orientation Devices: Marking the Edges
- This Text Is Hot
- Airlocks, Preview Functions, and the Rhetoric of Departure
- The Rhetoric of Arrival
- Converting Print Texts to Hypertext
- Converting Foot- and Endnotes
- Rules for Dynamic Data in Hypermedia
- Hypertext as Collage-Writing
- Is this hypertext any good? Or, How Do We Evaluate Quality in Hypermedia?
- Individual lexias should have an adequate number of links
- Following the link should provide a satisfying experience
- The pleasures of following links in hyperfiction and poetry
- Coherence
- Coherence as perceived analogy
- Does hypertext have a characteristic or necessary form of metaphoric organization?
- Gaps
- Individual lexias should satisfy readers and yet prompt them to want to follow additional links
- The reader can easily locate and move to a sitemap, introduction, or other starting point
- The document should exemplify true hypertextuality by providing multiple lines of organization
- The hyper-document should fully engage the hypertextual capacities of the particular software environment employed
- Conclusion
6. Reconfiguring Narrative
- Approaches to Hypertext Fiction — Some Opening Remarks
- Hypertext and the Aristotelian Conception of Plot
- Quasi Hypertextuality in Print texts
- Answering Aristotle: Hypertext and the Nonlinear Plot
- Print Anticipations of Multilinear Narratives in E-Space
- Narrative Beginnings and Endings
- Michael Joyce's afternoon
- Stitching together Narrative, Sexuality, Self:
- Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
- Quibbling: A Feminist Rhizome Narrative
- Storyworlds and Other Forms of Hypertext Narratives
- Computer Games, Hypertext, and Narrative
- Digitizing the Movies: Interactive versus Multiplied Cinema
- Is Hypertext Fiction Possible?
7. Reconfiguring Literary Education
- Threats and Promises
- Reconfiguring the Instructor
- Reconfiguring the Student
- Learning the Culture of a Discipline
- Nontraditional Students: Distant Learners and Readers outside Educational Instititions
- The Effects of Hypermedia in Teaching and Learning
- Reconfiguring Assignments and Methods of Evaluation
- A Hypertext Exercise
- Reconceiving Canon and Curriculum
- Creating the New Discursive Writing
- From Intermedia to the Web — Losses and Gains
- Answered Prayers, or the Academic Politics of Resistance
- What Chance Has Hypertext in Education?
- Getting the Paradigm Right
8. The Politics of Hypertext: Who Controls the Text?
- Can Hypertext Empower Anyone? Does Hypertext have a Political Logic?
- Marginalization of Technology and Mystification of Literature
- The Politics of Particular Technologies
- Technology as Prosthesis
- Hypertext and the Politics of Reading
- The Political Vision of Hypertext; or, The Message in the Medium
- Hypertext and Postcolonial Literature, Criticism, and Theory
- Infotech, Empires, and Decolonization
- Hypertext as Paradigm for Postcoloniality
- Forms of Postcolonialist Amnesia
- Hypertext as Paradigm in Postcolonial Theory
- The Politics of Access: Who Can Make Links, Who Decides
- What Is Linked?
- Slashdot: The Reader as Writer and Editor in a Multi-User Weblog
- Pornography, Gambling, and Law on the Internet —
- Vulnerability and Invulnerability in E-Space
- Access to the Text and the Author's Right (Copyright)
- Is the Hypertextual World of the Internet Anarchy or Big Brother's Realm
Backmatter
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Last modified 22 July 2008