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This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called ‘literary hypertext’, a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing.¬† Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature.¬† It focuses on key questions for literary scholars and teachers: How can literature be taught in such a way as to make it relevant for an increasingly hypermedia-oriented readership? How can the rapidly evolving new media be integrated into curricula that still seek to transmit ‘traditional’ literary competence?¬† How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends?¬† This study, which argues for hypertext’s integration in the literary canon, offers a critical overview of developments in hypertext theory, an exemplary hypertext canon and an evaluation of possible classroom applications.