RENAISSANCE MNEMONICS, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, AND THE RHETORIC OF HYPERTEXT COMPOSITION

by Richard Smyth, Ph.D.

Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Chapter One: Grammatology and Renaissance Studies

Towards a Definition of Grammatology
Deconstruction in Early Modern Studies
The "New Historicism" of Grammatology

Chapter Two: Grammatology in the Sixteenth Century

The Orality-Literacy Debate
Sixteenth-Century Mnemonic Practices
Spenser and the Memory Palace

Chapter Three: Spenser's Mnemonics of Literacy: The Monumentality of Prosopopoeia

Prosopopoeia and the Mnemonics of Literacy
The Ideology of Depth and the Prosopopoeia of the Book

Chapter Four: The Age of Electronic Composition

The Return of Allegory and the Privileging of the Surface
Hypertext and the Visual Representation of Information
Residual Literacy in Electronic Interface Designs: Allegories of Book Reading

Chapter Five: Rhizography: A Manifesto for Hypertext Composition

The Rhizome and Hypertext Writing
A Deleuzoguattarian Conception and Method of Hypertext Composition

Conclusion

List of References