modernism postmodernism
romanticism paraphysics
form (conjunctive, closed) antiform (disjunctive, open)
purpose play
design chance
hierarchy anarchy
mastery/logos exhaustion/silence
art object/finished work process/performance/happening


"Good" student writing is typically judged according to modernist standards--see column 1. Hypertext helps to dislodge such modernist expectations, as it has the characteristics of a postmodern text--see column 2. (columns from Faigley--who, curiously, neglects any discussion of hypertext in Fragments...--14; from Ihab Hassan's "The Culture of Postmodernism" 123)

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