Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Continuum Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Ensslin, Astrid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826495583 ISBN 13: 9780826495587

Publisher: Continuum, 2007

Synopsis

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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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 Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826495583
• ISBN 13: 9780826495587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206