The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary TheoryElizabeth Beaumont Bissell Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. |
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... novel into hypertext , through two more or less problematic examples . Although Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 was written in 1966 , it is a novel which seems to look forward to contemporary hypertext . " At the first ...
... novel into hypertext , through two more or less problematic examples . Although Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 was written in 1966 , it is a novel which seems to look forward to contemporary hypertext . " At the first ...
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... novel such as this . However we negotiate our way through the text , the notion of an underlying histoire which explains everything is elusive . The novel's ending is open : the agent of the Tristero does not arrive to buy the lot , and ...
... novel such as this . However we negotiate our way through the text , the notion of an underlying histoire which explains everything is elusive . The novel's ending is open : the agent of the Tristero does not arrive to buy the lot , and ...
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... novel might be to allow readers to revisit the past through a hyptertext adaptation and relate it to other documents , and events on the World Wide Web . The reader could read the novel's original words and make a detour through ...
... novel might be to allow readers to revisit the past through a hyptertext adaptation and relate it to other documents , and events on the World Wide Web . The reader could read the novel's original words and make a detour through ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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