The Validity of Reader-oriented Criticism in Electronic Media
The Validity of Reader-oriented Criticism in Electronic Media

Summary/Abstract: Our study tries to apply the aesthetics of reception to the multimedia space and to identify – on the basis the Hypertext – the borders of these theories within the multimedia space. Multimedia means, above all, hypertext. The term hypermedia is conceived as a relative term (to hypertext), used alternatively, and labels the creative reception of the artistic works as well as a suitability of various artistic spheres. In analysis of the creative act (and in the act of reading of the text) the concept of hypertext runs out from the ideas of two influential authors, Jay David Bolter and George P. Landow. The aesthetics of reception require further, into the field of literary productions, the reference to Deconstruction as alternative theory of interpretation where the concept of authority is deeply (re)considered.

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