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critical theory
Hypertext theory in English looks to literary and critical theory and is explicitly interdisciplinary in its endeavour. This theory rely on various poststructural theories or theorists to engage with, describe, promote, or criticise hypertext.
In all these approaches hypertext is understood to be a particular technology of reading and writing, and quite particularly to enact or perform what poststructuralism (loosely and broadly speaking) has defined or characterised as the implicit and immament qualities of textuality Ñ qualities that poststructuralism has also suggested are disguised, disavowed, or concealed in traditional accounts of what texts are, and what they do.
In other words those values that the traditional or classical text is understood to aspire to or represent (clarity, authorial intentionality, singular argument and meaning, regularity of tone or voice) and that poststructuralism demonstrates to be implicit and always already active in all texts, become the qualitative and formal basis of what such theory thinks hypertext might, or should, be.
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