Rosenblatt understood literature to be an event in time that involves a
transaction between reader, text and writer. This event then becomes part
of the readers life experience. The critical position I take in this hypertext presentation is
that hypertext best positions readers, writers and learners in our explorations of 21st Century
Literature. New Criticism, Myth Criticism, Structuralist and Semiotic Criticism, Phenomenological
Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Political Criticism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Ethnicism, Reader
Response Criticism and Post Modernism provide reading strategies that will help readers form
multi-linear readings which in school and in their lives will best be described as experience with
hypertext.