If You Only Want To Read One Screen
The more I read hypertext, the more I realized that the modern schools
of criticism that I had studied, for the most part, focused most on delineating
between the theoretical reader, text and writer. What I really was looking for
was thinking like Rosenblatts. By linking the real reader, text and writer in a
world of literary events with her transactional theory (first described in her l938
edition of Literature As Exploration), Rosenblatt was clearly
addressing the theoretical implications of a continuum of literary acts.
Nowhere is that continuum more apparent to me than in first year college
composition classes. Its possible that hypertext will replicate new critical
thinking that has already been happening in actual schools for years.