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Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext L A U R A S H A C K E L F O R D What good is the ability to choose or perform if the choices available are already circumscribed? Narrative, consciousness, and agency always produce a problem in conceiving of anything other than binary gender, since the very presumptions upon which they depend also already systematically rely upon binary gender as both cause and effect. Judith Roof, "Is There Sex after Gender? Ungendering/The Unnameable" Whosoever, instead of writing about one's resistance toward writing, really omits writing altogether violates the general intellectual openness and will be eliminated on grounds of antisocial behavior. Carl Schmitt, "The Buribunks: A Historico-Philosophical Meditation" n this analysis, I return to one of the initial strains of newmedia theory, the "first-generation" hypertext theory of J. David Bolter, George P. Landow, and Richard A. Lanham, to examine the theoretical assumptions that led to an overestimation of hypertext and its effects on subjectivity.1 In relying on a constructivist theory of sociotechnological mediation, adapted from 1. I'm borrowing the designation of George Landow, Jay David Bolter, and other early hypertext theorists as "first-generation" from Katherine Hayles, who uses it to differentiate their theoretical approaches and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

Contemporary Literature , Volume 46 (2) – Aug 29, 2005

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L A U R A S H A C K E L F O R D What good is the ability to choose or perform if the choices available are already circumscribed? Narrative, consciousness, and agency always produce a problem in conceiving of anything other than binary gender, since the very presumptions upon which they depend also already systematically rely upon binary gender as both cause and effect. Judith Roof, "Is There Sex after Gender? Ungendering/The Unnameable" Whosoever, instead of writing about one's resistance toward writing, really omits writing altogether violates the general intellectual openness and will be eliminated on grounds of antisocial behavior. Carl Schmitt, "The Buribunks: A Historico-Philosophical Meditation" n this analysis, I return to one of the initial strains of newmedia theory, the "first-generation" hypertext theory of J. David Bolter, George P. Landow, and Richard A. Lanham, to examine the theoretical assumptions that led to an overestimation of hypertext and its effects on subjectivity.1 In relying on a constructivist theory of sociotechnological mediation, adapted from 1. I'm borrowing the designation of George Landow, Jay David Bolter, and other early hypertext theorists as "first-generation" from Katherine Hayles, who uses it to differentiate their theoretical approaches and

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Contemporary LiteratureUniversity of Wisconsin Press

Published: Aug 29, 2005

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