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Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print

by Jay David Bolter. 232 pgs.

Contributors:

   Jay David Bolter

Publisher:

   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication:

  Mahwah, NJ  

Publication Year:

  2000

Subjects:

Text Processing (Computer Science), Electronic Publishing, Hypertext Systems, Word Processing, Authorship--Data Processing

	Preface	xi
	1 Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print	1
	The Late Age of Print	1
	The Future of Print	4
	The Old and the New in Digital Writing	7
	Refashioning the Voice of the Text	10
	Refashioning the Writing Space	12
	2 Writing as Technology	14
	Writing Technologies and Material Culture	17
	Economies of Writing	21
	3 Hypertext and the Remediation of Print	27
	Word Processing and Topical Writing	29
	Hypertext	32
	Writing as Construction	36
	Global Hypertext	38
	Hypertext as Remediation	40
	The Old and the New in Hypertext	44
	4 The Breakout of the Visual	47
	The Image and the Printed Page	49
	Visual Metaphors	52
	Ekphrasis	56
	Picture Writing	59
	Electronic Picture Writing	61
	The Electronic Page	66
	5 The Electronic Book	77
	The Changing Idea of the Book	77
	Great Books	81
	Encyclopedic Order	83
	The Electronic Encyclopedia	87
	The Library as a Writing Space	91
	6 Refashioned Dialogues	99
	The Reading Path	99
	From Dialogue to Essay to Web Page	104
	The End of the Line?	107
	The Hypertextual Essay?	111
	Educational Dialogue	113
	Multiple Dialogues	117
	7 Interactive Fiction	121
	“Afternoon”	124
	The Rhetoric of the Multilinear	128
	Displacement and Repetition in “Victory Garden”	130
	Disrupting the Linear	137
	The Tradition of Experiment	138
	Sterne and the Novel as Conversation	140
	James Joyce as Hypertext	142
	Borges and Exhaustion in Print	145
	Composition No. 1	148
	Multiple Eeading and Writing	150
	Digital Poetry and Performative Texts	153
	Hypermedia: Popular and Avant-Garde	155
	8 Critical Theory in a New Writing Space	161
	Writing Technologies and the Literary Critical Tradition	162
	The End of Authority	165
	Hypertext and Poststructuralism	170
	Reader Response and the Architecture of Hypertext	171
	Electronic Signs	176
	Deconstruction and Electronic Writing	179
	New Convergences and Popular forms	183
	Looking at and Looking Through	184
	The Practice of Theory	186
	9 Writing the Self	189
	Writing as Analysis	190
	Writing the Cartesian Mind	193
	Hypertext and the Cartesian Ego	196
	Electronic Writing and the Postmodern Self	197
	The Materiality of the Electronic Self	200
	10 Writing Culture	203
	The Network Culture	203
	Cultural Unity	205
	The Remediation of Culture	208
	11 The Web Site	214
	References	215
	Index	225

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