ENG287H1 Lecture Notes - Jean-Paul Sartre, Hypertext
Document Summary
Digital allows for instantaneous two-way traffic between the author and the audience. Digital also allows for ease with which readers become writers. Intactivity can be seen as the selling point of digital media. This week"s texts are very much still texts while being interactive. The creation of hypertext in the "80s caused excitement. Literary critics saw it as a more democratic way of producing texts because the reader can become part of the text. There was also excitement over a nonlinear structure to writing. Deconstruction - the idea of hypertext confirms the belief that there is no one single ending. It also confirmed the idea that the author was becoming less important and becoming more a trademark. It was believed that electronic writing would confirm the instability of text and the decreasing authority of the author. Critics said that the only ones who believed in hypertext and read hypertext were those who make hypertext literature.
