Conception of Cover Design by Paul Delany

CONTENTS

Part I. Introduction

Hypertext, Hypermedia and Literary Studies: The State of the Art. George P. Landow and Paul Delany 3

Part II. Theory

Reading and Writing the Electronic Book. Nicole Yankelovich, Norman Meyrowitz and Andries van Dam 53

The Rhetoric of Hypermedia: Some Rules for Authors George P. Landow 81

Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the E]ectronic Writing Space. Jay David Bolter 105

Reading From the Map: Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of "Forking Paths.'" Stuart Moulthrop 119

From Electronic Books to Electronic Libraries: Revisiting "Reading and Writing the Electronic Book." Nicole Yankelovich 133

Poem Descending a Staircase: Hypertext and the Simultaneity of Experience. William Dickey 143

Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in a New Medium. John Slatin 153

Threnody: Psychoanalytic Digressions on the Subject of Hypertexts. Terence Harpold 171

Part III. Applications

Biblical Studies and Hypertext Steven J. DeRose. 185

Ancient Materials, Modern Media: Shaping the Study of Classics with Hypertext. Gregory Crane and Elli Mylonas 205

Adapting Published Material into Intermedia Documents. Paul Kahn 221

The Shakespeare Project. Larry Friedlander 257

The Emblematic Hyperbook. David Graham 273

HyperCard Stacks for Fielding's Joseph Andrews: Issues of Design and Content. Paul Delany and John K. Gilbert 287

Hypertext for the PC: the Ruben Dario Project. Joseph A. Feustle Jr. 299

Conceptualizing Hypermedia Curricula for Literary Studies in Schools. Alister Cumming and Gerri Sinclair 315

Notes on Contributors 339

Index