Subject: Re: hypertexts
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 02 1997 - 14:16:00 GMT
yes, the talmud, yes it is a hypertext for all the right reasons--it's not
a story, but a story with critical and metacritical texts *on the same
screen*...hypertext in my eyes is multilinear text with less closure and
more active reading roles than text. When I mentioned Balzac's _Human
Comedy_ I meant it as a hypertext of l9th century france, not a
hyperfiction. Actually, at NYU I briefly worked with an incredibly poor
professor. He was so blinded by his status as a virginia woolf scholar
that he was unable to be a human teacher--in other words, he had become
his subject (literature) so much he stopped teaching people. Nonetheless,
he too wrote hypertext when he studied drafts of woolf's _Between the
Acts_ and provided readers with several texts of the novel as well as
critical and metacritical commentary. When I suggested hypertext as a way
to see his work, he laughed at me. He's so desperate for recognitition
though that he might not laugh now...now what was the name of his book?
will
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