Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

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This volume examines the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory, radical and border pedagogies, and technological criticism, the text discusses three primary ways hypertext is articulated: as automated text (technical communication), as virtual commodity (on-line databases), and as environment for constructing and exploring multiple subject positions (post-modern hypertext in composition and literature).

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"Those technical communicators who work in hypertext have probably already gotten themselves a copy of this text (and those who haven't should)....[e]xpands the field of hypertext, technical communication, and composition and deserves an appropriately expanded audience of critical readers."-Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Johnson-Eilola has started this much needed dialogue between global and local inquiries, a dialogue that ultimately may change what academics and industry people respectively create and produce in hypertext environments.-IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication
Nostalgic Angels successfully speaks to both the initiated and the uninitiated on the articulation and rearticulation of one mode of communication in cyberculture, hypertext. It is a refreshing and reassuring book that blends postmodern and composition theory.-Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Those technical communicators who work in hypertext have probably already gotten themselves a copy of this text (and those who haven't should)....[e]xpands the field of hypertext, technical communication, and composition and deserves an appropriately expanded audience of critical readers.-Journal of Business and Technical Communication
"Johnson-Eilola has started this much needed dialogue between global and local inquiries, a dialogue that ultimately may change what academics and industry people respectively create and produce in hypertext environments."-IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication
"Nostalgic Angels successfully speaks to both the initiated and the uninitiated on the articulation and rearticulation of one mode of communication in cyberculture, hypertext. It is a refreshing and reassuring book that blends postmodern and composition theory."-Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies