Rethinking
The Academy:Rethinking
The Academy:This is itself an example of a "lexia" or "node," often also called a "note." The lexia is the basic unit of a hypertext; each lexia consists of a short number of paragraphs, and one unit of thought. The term comes from George Landow's pioneering text on the use and structure of non-linear texts, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory and Technology. In it, he defines hypertext as a series of "text[s] composed of blocks of texts - what Barthes terms a lexia - and the electronic links that join them" (4).
If the lexia spans more than a single unit of thought, it is often broken up into two smaller nodes or notes (the terms are all interchangeable with one another) each with links to each other. For instance, Native Hypertext and Serious Scholarly Activity were originally part of the same node; at some point, I split off the material that now comprises a separate file and gave it its own place in this web.
Last Modified: August 2, 1996
Copyright © 1996 by Keith Dorwick
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