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From digitalhumanities

[edit] The interpretation of Literature

1990 University of Austin Texas, 1st Conference on Cyberspace resulted in literary documents collectively as Cyberspace:First Steps

[edit] Scholarly approaches to reading texts

pg 79 "support to the non-referential theories of language favored by ...disciples of Saussure"
(Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913) Swiss lingustics scholar. (modern linguistics...development of structuralism)

[edit] What is Literature? Potentially refers to any use of Language

William Gibson coined the word cyberspace in 1981 novel Neuromancer
Cyberpunk is a literary movement started after that

What do I want to say about literary theories of the web at this point? How can I organize what I know? What do I know?

1. I know that the use of hypertext is a fluid medium unlike a codex. 2. I know that hypertext can be manipulated and that affects authorship and readership 3. no matter what approach is used to interpret hypertext what is its nature? How does it respond to use? 4. how does that affect our language and literature