Hypertext
Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past
Posted December 12th, 2005 by Tatjana Chorney, Saint Mary's University
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We hear a lot these
days about the empowering shifts in readers' abilities to construct
meaning and to change the "original" text made possible by new
technology. But the phenomenon is at least as old as the early modern
period, when it was used to good effect by writers like John Donne.
Tatjana Chorney argues that "studying the dynamic of interactive
reading is. . .not only a look back on past practice but also a model
for studying integrative teaching and learning in a global world."
