• Preliminary Class Business
• Early Historical Precedents bearing on the question, "What is Hypertext Literature?"
• Barthes' 5 Codes
• References

Preliminary Class Business

• Michael Joyce's Afternoon, A Story has been ordered

Early Historical Precedents bearing on the question, "What is Hypertext Literature?"

• Emblem Books: [examples] [Cesare Ripa, Iconologia: Or, Moral Emblems ] (compare Ed Falco's Self-Portrait as Child with Father, 1999)
       (thanks to Mary Ma, graduate student in the English dept. for this idea)
  
  
• Early text/image forms: see Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (1987), pp. 158-67, 180-82

Barthes' 5 Codes

Proairetic or Action code

Semic codes (connotation)

Symbolic codes (antithesis)

Cultural codes

Hermeneutic code

References

• Cesare Ripa, Iconologia: Or, Moral Emblems (London: Benjamin Motte, 1709) (The English Emblem Book Project)
• The English Emblem Book Project (large repository of emblem books; presents facsimile pages, some clickable to to show the text associated with each emblem; includes full bibliographical information) (Pennsylvania State U. Libraries)
• Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987)
• Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742)

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