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the canon
The sorts of literary texts that hypertext theory tends to use to show what literary hypertext might be reads as a high modernist canon.
The writers include:
Louis Borges
James Joyce
These writers have all produced works that are interpreted in terms that make them, in many ways, analogous to literary hypertext. However this is probably an overstatement of what these texts actually perform as their very effect could be thought of as a result of the serial linearity that books provide.
Hypertext theory's reliance on these 'theories of the text' is probably a reflection of early hypertext's reliance on print (even the Web was first of all - though briefly, only text), and early hypertext theory's appropriation of poststructural literary theory to legitimate itself.
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