Landow, George P. (Ed). Hyper / Text / Theory. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Hyper / Text / Theory, edited by George P. Landow, is a collection of several essays from different authors. These essays deal with the superordinate topic of hypertexts. Furthermore is this book divided into three subtopics: Nonlinearity, The Politics of Hypertext and The New Writing.
At the outset, the editor himself, George P. Landow, gives an introduction to hypertexts, its structure and he gives umpteen different examples. Landow goes into the importance of the feature of the electronic links. Subsequent, he states that hypertexts offer possibilities as well as problems and that they can also be seen crucial. The following essays are going to have a detailed look at these problems and possibilities.
The chapter Nonlinearity deals with the narrative of hypertexts. This chapter contains five essays. Espen J. Aarseth writes about nonlinear texts and this essay is not primarily concerned with hypertext; she rather looks at the repertoire of textual forms. Nonlinear texts are objects of verbal communication, which are not fixed sequence of letters, words or sentences. These texts rather differ in their words or sequences of words from reading to reading because of the shape, conventions or mechanisms of the text. In the essay of J. Yellowlees Douglas, he writes about the closure of a story. Thereby he compares the narrative and especially about indeterminacy of print books and interactive narratives and how essential a closure to our readings of narrative is.
The second chapter The Politics of Hypertext contains three essays and deals in the foreground with the impact these hypertexts, interactive narratives have on the society and the politics. Charles Ess for example discusses the issue if the new technologies like hypertexts democratize communication and society appears as a central justification. Stuart Moulthrop afterwards writes about the change and increase of technologies and its impact on the society and the culture.
The last chapter The New Writing has two essays. In these essays, the authors establish ties of hypertext with philosophy. It discusses question like: can we use philosophy using hypertext? What kind of work might a philosophical hypertext do?
This book is of avail if someone wants to research in detail about hypertexts. It offers a detailed introduction to hypertexts and its different variations and delivers further insight into its structure/ narrative and influence on society. Furthermore, this book has a look on this topic in a crucial way and does not just depict facts.
Hyper / Text / Theory, edited by George P. Landow, is a collection of several essays from different authors. These essays deal with the superordinate topic of hypertexts. Furthermore is this book divided into three subtopics: Nonlinearity, The Politics of Hypertext and The New Writing.
At the outset, the editor himself, George P. Landow, gives an introduction to hypertexts, its structure and he gives umpteen different examples. Landow goes into the importance of the feature of the electronic links. Subsequent, he states that hypertexts offer possibilities as well as problems and that they can also be seen crucial. The following essays are going to have a detailed look at these problems and possibilities.
The chapter Nonlinearity deals with the narrative of hypertexts. This chapter contains five essays. Espen J. Aarseth writes about nonlinear texts and this essay is not primarily concerned with hypertext; she rather looks at the repertoire of textual forms. Nonlinear texts are objects of verbal communication, which are not fixed sequence of letters, words or sentences. These texts rather differ in their words or sequences of words from reading to reading because of the shape, conventions or mechanisms of the text. In the essay of J. Yellowlees Douglas, he writes about the closure of a story. Thereby he compares the narrative and especially about indeterminacy of print books and interactive narratives and how essential a closure to our readings of narrative is.
The second chapter The Politics of Hypertext contains three essays and deals in the foreground with the impact these hypertexts, interactive narratives have on the society and the politics. Charles Ess for example discusses the issue if the new technologies like hypertexts democratize communication and society appears as a central justification. Stuart Moulthrop afterwards writes about the change and increase of technologies and its impact on the society and the culture.
The last chapter The New Writing has two essays. In these essays, the authors establish ties of hypertext with philosophy. It discusses question like: can we use philosophy using hypertext? What kind of work might a philosophical hypertext do?
This book is of avail if someone wants to research in detail about hypertexts. It offers a detailed introduction to hypertexts and its different variations and delivers further insight into its structure/ narrative and influence on society. Furthermore, this book has a look on this topic in a crucial way and does not just depict facts.
S. Lamouchi
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