Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature

Literature from Page to Interface
The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature
by Søren Pold
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, digital hypertext literature was broadly considered a reckoning with the book. In continuation of a post-modern and post-structuralist tradition, hypertext was seen as an exhaustion of, and a potential break with, the literary forms of the printed book, a view that was reinforced by hypertext theory. Already before the general appearance of digital hypertext literature, there was a widespread theoretically based understanding of the crisis of the book, the late age of print, the end of the Gutenberg galaxy, and so on.

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