Foreword
About the Authors
Literacy, Paradigm, and Paradox: An Introduction (Stephanie B. Gibson)

I. Early Paradigms

  1. Blake's Problem and Ours: Some Reflections on the Image and the Work (Nancy Kaplan)
  2. Hypertextuality and Chaucer, or Re-Ordering the Canterbury Tales and Other Reader Prerogatives (Sandy Feinstein)
  3. The Gutenberg Promise: Stones, Mirrors or a Printing Press (Neil Kleinman)
II. Literacy Shifts

  1. Coming to Terms With Terms in Academic Cyberculture (David B. Downing and James J. Sosnoski)
  2. The Misfortunes of Digital Text (Terry Harpold)
  3. The Lingering Errantness of Place, or Library as Library (Michael Joyce)
III. Paradigms: Understanding of Self and Others

  1. Developing a Concept of Self in Cyberspace Communities (Sue Barnes)
  2. Fretwork: Reforming Me (Carolyn Guyer)
  3. MOOs, Anarchitecture, Toward a New Threshold (Cynthia Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, Beth Kolko, and Victor J. Vitanza)
IV. Paradox: The Power of Infinite Connections
  1. Hypermedia, Space, and Dimensionality (Lance Strate)
  2. Reading Hidden Messages in Cybersapce: Semiotics and Cryptography (James Connor)
  3. From Virtue to Vertu to the Virtual: Art, Self-Organizing Systems, and the Net (Sandra Braman)
  4. "Nature" Versus "Nurture": The Three Paradoxes of Hypertext (J. Yellowlees Douglas)
Author Index
Subject Index

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