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Reviewed by
Douglas Eyman
CFCC


            



Adam's Bookstore

Adam Wenger


      "Adam's Bookstore," by Adam Wenger, is at once a Borgesian depiction of a circular text which "resides" in both an internal and external bookstore, but also an enactment in hypertext of the project that Roland Barthes initiated with his classic S/Z . Wenger comments that this hypertext forms "an analysis and deconstruction of my own hypertext short story. . . the deconstruction does not precede and have precedence over the initial text as Barthes' S/Z  does over Sarrasine . Rather, this deconstruction is viewed simultaneously and interspersed with the text." Wenger treats his own short story exactly as Barthes did Sarrasine , using the same codes and lexia structure for the analysis. Of course, one can also choose to explore only the hypertext fiction without distraction from the analysis.

Contents:
  • Food for Thought
    Jane Park

  • An Evening at Roy's
    Roy Perlis

  • Bodily Writing
    Anne Pycha

  • The Hero's Face
    Joshua Rappaport

  • Rhizome
    Maggie Skodon

  • Freud Web
    David B. Stevenson

  • LBJ
    Timothy Taylor

  • Adam's Bookstore
    Adam Wenger


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