Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9558-7
Verlag: CONTINNUUM 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Continuum Literary Studies

This innovative monograph focuses on a new form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. Canonising Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature. It focuses on key questions: How can literature be taught in such a way as to make it relevant for an increasingly hypermedia-oriented readership? How can the rapidly evolving new media be integrated into a curriculum that still seeks to transmit classical literary competence? This study, which argues for hypertext's integration in the literary canon, offers a critical overview of developments in hypertext theory, an exemplary hypertext canon and an evaluation of possible classroom applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ensslin, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor