مترددون .. التربية والشعرية باستخدام النصوص التشعبية

In Between Two Opinions, leading hypertext novelist and writing educator Michael Joyce explores new technologies, media, and approaches to teaching and writing, from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As the author of Afternoon: A Story, which The New York Times called “the most widely read, quoted, and critically acclaimed of all hypertext novels,” and co-developer of Story Space, an innovative hypertext program widely praised for introducing new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely qualified to explore this exciting topic. These essays consist of what Joyce calls “theoretical narratives,” woven from emails, hypertext “knots,” and other types of electronic texts that move ambidextrous from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and education, teaching and writing. The electronic medium facilitates this mobile movement of ideas, allowing boundaries to be easily crossed (or erased) at the click of a button, thus challenging our notions of intellectual and artistic boundaries. Joyce makes clear that we are not merely natural heirs, but that we are, through our visions, architects of new technologies that promise to fulfill our visions as much as to change them. This collection calls upon writings from artists, poets, teachers, scholars, and feminist thinkers, and in doing so builds on notions of human potential as the basis for the broadest kinds of dialogue in what Joyce sees as our increasingly pluralistic, diverse, and multilingual culture. “Between theoretical reflections, reports of actual classroom use, polemical discourses, and a rich web of allusions, Between Two Opinions makes a powerful case that hypertext creates a topography of textuality that requires new modes of thinking about texts.” - N. Catherine Hailes, University of California, Los Angeles