INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTEXT
Before starting, I would like to offer a
briefly
introduction by my own words of what a hypertext is, taking into
account the
research I did about hypertext and electronic
literature.
Electronic literature is the kind of fiction
that
appears always through Internet and whose way of reading is non-linear;
that
is, the reader is not obliged to follow the lines consequently. Inside
the text
there are another links that can take the reader to other part of the
text;
which must not be the next or the previous one. In this kind of texts
all the
visual effects, the sounds, the background, etc have an important value
in the
completely understanding of the text. Thus, the reader can give to the
text the
considered meaning taking into account all the issues I said before.
The reader
is the most important part in this kind of literature because the final
meaning
of a hypertext will depend on its own interpretation of what it can
see, listen
to, or read at the same time.
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These links are the ones that the author of
this
research (Deena Larsen) has written about or some examples that she
takes part
in the development of electronic literature or hypertext fiction. These
are the
ones I mainly based my research on.
- http://www.informatik.un
i-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ht/ht2004.html#LarsenH04
- http://www.informatik.uni-
trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Larsen:Deena.html
(it is also another webpage of Deena Larsen and the actualization of www.deenalarsent.net)
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These links are some of the many sources that
are now
available in the net that take to a wider explanation of electronic
literature,
hypertext definitions, etc. I selected these four ones because I think
they
offer a simple and useful information.
- http://www.cyberar
tsweb.org/cpace/ht/htov.html
- http://quod.lib.umich.ed
u/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0006.301
-
http://en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Electronic_literature
-
http://www.tnellen.com/
ted/hypertext.html
IndexPage Introduction Analysis Conclusion
Academic year 2008/2009
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© Ana Maiz Rodríguez
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