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 Rosenblatt’s. 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. It’s possible that hypertext will replicate new critical thinking that has already been happening in actual schools for years.