Hypertext Poetry

Author: Huang Mingfen
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book introduces the development history of hypertext and the contributions of its pioneers from eight aspects: hypertext as hyper-text of history, as hyper-text of concept, as hyper-text of platform, as hyper-text of category, as hyper-text of teaching material, as hyper-text of aesthetics, and as hyper-text of the future. It explores the connection between hypertext and Western Marxism and postmodernism, the impact of hypertext on the construction, integration, and distance education, the possibility of establishing hypertext aesthetics, and analyzes hyperwriting, hyperreading, hypermetaphor that are adapted to hypertext, as well as the technical specifications, copyright regulations, and social norms of hypertext. It also looks ahead to the future prospects of hypertext.