English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wayne C. Booth, Hypermedia, Stanley Fish
28 Dec 2018
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Says there is a distinct technology: books are programs basically instruction sets for cognitive performance, that reading must be understood as our response to the formal structures of the book. Reading books is interactive, it is never a passive activity. The page is the atom of the book, its most basic building block but the page is also a frame that marks a boundary. Websites are stacked piles of pages, browsers are static windows and e-books are not simulations of books at all but single pages. All books and all reading must be interactive. Printed books are composed of bound pages in finite fixed sentences. Digital books are composed of virtual book resulting from the complex productions of meaning and effect that arises from dynamic interaction with the literal work. A school of literary criticism that focuses on the effect that texts have on the reader.
