Electronic Text

Investigations in Method and Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-823663-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Since the 1950s, when Roland Barthes re-expressed the formalist ideal of an open-ended text, there has been much interest among literary critics and theorists of text in the question of what text is and what it gives us access to. The computer storage and electronic dissemination of texts adds a new controversy to the debate: what is the significance of the electronic text for the representation and transmission of knowledge?

In its functions as multi-text storer and in its capacity to weave, unweave, and reweave text, the computer lends itself to a variety of later twentieth-century theoretic and cultural practices, from the decomposing strategies of deconstructive criticism to the date-dense contextualism of criticisms of postmodernism, coming from new historicism, cultural anthropology, and post-Marxism.

The contributors to this book examine the impact of electronic technology on literary and textual studies. They ask how the computer is being used to reshape ideas of text, of authorship, of a literary canon, of authenticity and value as embodied in the edited work. They combine approaches from literary theory, the philosophy of text, feminist theory, and textual criticism. Topics include interactive Shakespeare, the poetry of Laetitia Landon, Mark Twain and hypertext, and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sutherland, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Kathryn Sutherland: Introduction

- 2: Jerome J. McGann: The Rationale of Hypertext

- 3: Claire Lamont: Annotating a Text: Literary Theory and Electronic Hypertext

- 4: Patrick Conner: Lighting Out for the Territory: Hypertext, Ideology, and Huckleberry Finn

- 5: Allen Renear: Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality

- 6: Julia Flanders: The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text

- 7: Peter Robinson: New Directions in Critical Editing

- 8: Peter Donaldson: Digital Archive as Expanded Text: Shakespeare and Electronic Textuality

- 9: David Greetham: Coda: Is it Morphin' Time?

- Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

She is also Director of Project Electra, an electronic textbase of women's writings in English.