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Editorial
Bibliography of Hypertext Criticism

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Julianne Chatelain Richard E. Higgason Deena Larsen Bill Marsh Adrian Miles Jenny Weight

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.

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