Voice Text Hypertext

<p><i>Voice Text Hypertext</i> illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event a matrix of decisions an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions modern “underground” literary movements poetic invention or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics.<br/><br/>Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions the volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory—and indeed for any discipline that studies human culture.</p>