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Essay 2

Question 1

Roland Barthes describe the ideal text as one that makes "the reader no longer a consumer, but a producer of the text." Texts that allow the reader to become producer (or "writer") are what Barthes describes as "writerly" texts. In what ways are hypertextual documents a realization of the writerly text? (Feel free to present counter-examples or to argue against the question.)