Barthes

There are two short essays by Roland Barthes that hypertext theory repeatedly uses to identify those literary or discursive qualities that hypertext embodies.

The first essay, " The Death of the Author", is related closely to Foucault's "What is an Author?", and shares many of the same concerns.

The second essay, " From Work to Text", attempts to describe and nominate a difference between two different methodologies or ways of conceiving what sorts of documents we make. This difference is not located in the relation of reading to writing, but in the productive relation that a document creates for its users (its writers and its readers).

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