Travis lists Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault as a few of the critics who are used by the hypertheorists to describe the theoretical underpinnings of hypertext and hyperfiction(117).
Hilmar Schmundt agrees that, for hypertheorists, "Poststructuralism is the official doctrine..."( 312). One of the main ideas in poststructuralism, that there is no solid structure underlying text, or that the "center fails to hold," is reflected in hypertheory. Other ideas of poststructuralism reflected in hypertheory are the questioning of the '); }