HU520:
A Review of Luca Toschi's "Hypertext and Authorship"
In G. Nunberg (Ed.) (1996). The Future of the Book (pp. 169-206),
Berkeley: U. of California Press .
What are the Medium's Multiple Messages?
the critic's work is becoming more complex (defined on p. 201)
paratext is that which sells the original text and can overhelm it.
It creates "buzz." But there is also the other media to be added
and that add dimensions to the novel or other genre. Close attention to
these challenge modern authors. Once those other media and "diverse
mateial representations" are integrated, we have no "right"
to disentangle them? (191)
the need to assume responsibility of world-wide distribution of our
new media (botoom of 194).
experimenting with new media surely results in a condemnation from
extablished communication and critical industries.
The problem of reconstructing the making of a literary work may become
much more difficult. we need to build it into our compositional practices
via hypertextual links for earlier formative efforts: creating "numerous
sequentialities" (203)
We must structure our data or process of constructing the data (204).