Rethinking
The Academy:Rethinking
The Academy:Roland Barthes has attempted to do in print what many authors have managed to do in hypertext and electronic documents. Barthes says that he wishes to
… star the text, separating, in the manner of a minor earthquake, the blocks of signification of which reading grasps only the smooth surface, imperceptibly soldered by the movement of sentences, the flowing discourse of narration, the 'naturalness' of ordinary language. The tutor signifier will be cut up into a series of brief, contiguous fragments, which we shall call lexias, since they are units of reading.
(quoted in Landow 52-53).
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