Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions
This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing.  Canonizing 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 for literary scholars and teachers: 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 curricula that still seek to transmit 'traditional' literary competence?  How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends?  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.

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Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions
This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing.  Canonizing 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 for literary scholars and teachers: 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 curricula that still seek to transmit 'traditional' literary competence?  How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends?  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.

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Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

by Astrid Ensslin
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

by Astrid Ensslin

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This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing.  Canonizing 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 for literary scholars and teachers: 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 curricula that still seek to transmit 'traditional' literary competence?  How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends?  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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826495587
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/09/2007
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Astrid Ensslin is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her past publications include Literary Gaming (2014), Analyzing Digital Fiction (2014), The Language of Gaming (2011), Creating Second Lives (2011), Canonizing Hypertext (2007), and Language in the Media (2007). She is Principal Editor of Jourbanal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Hypertextual Ontologies
2. Hypertext and the Question of Canonicity
3. A Hypertext Canon4. Literary Competence - Conceptual Adaptations
5. Hypertext in the Literature Classroom
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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