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theory revision
As we studied last semester there is a strong relation between hypertext theory and critical theory.
Of course this is a particular way of thinking about, and doing, hypertext theory and it is a way of thinking about hypertext that contextualises it in terms of existing theories of discoure and textuality, rather than histories of programming, information retrieval, or any other major theoretical paradigm (cinematic, visual, whatever).
As a result of this the early hypertext theorists (and by early we simply mean figures like Jay David Bolter and George Landow) relied very heavily on literary theory, and the modern literary text, for their examples.
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