Author Details
Richard E. Higgason
Blue River Community College, Blue Springs, Missouri, USA
Email: rich.higgason@kcmetro.edu
Web site: http://www.kcmetro.edu/blueriver/humanities/english/higgason
About the Author
Richard E. Higgason is an instructor at Blue River Community College where
he teaches English. He received his PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
specializing in Literature and Criticism, in May 2002. His dissertation,
Hypertext Performances/Hypertext Communities, directly addresses two issues
in hypertext studies: the lack of a significant body of criticism analyzing
individual works of hypertext, and the lack of discussions concerning the
challenges of teaching hypertext literature.
In this issue
Higgason has contributed an essay consisting of eight interlinked nodes
discussing the nature of criticism, the role of the critic and the dangerous
fallacies surrounding his work. He illustrates the difficulties of hypertext
criticism with examples of two hypothetical critics running into typical
problems like the non-fixity of texts or the unread lexia, and has recommendations
on how to get around them.
The titles of the nodes are: