SECOND PAPER

Subject : # 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el Siglo XVIII Grupo A

Student´s name : Mateo López, Elvira

Title of the paper : "Sister Stories"

Author or topic : Carolyne Guyer

Abstract : I have chosen the hypertext created by Carolyne Guyer with Rosemary Joyce and Michael Joyce, “Sister Stories”, because at first, I thought that this hypertext would be a great story of Aztecs, but now I know that I was wrong, it’s rather like a story of Aztec culture, but it’s also interesting.

In this paper I’m going to treat the aspect of time, there are many other aspects that can be treated in hypertexts like space and tools, and I have mentioned a little about them, but I have focalized in the time. Furthermore, I have made an introduction, where I explain what hypertexts are and I explain briefly some aspects of “Sister Stories”. Finally, I have written a conclusion to talk about my first experience with this modern form of read texts.

Auto-evaluation: This is the first time that I have read a hypertext and I recognize that reading “Sister Stories” has been a bit difficult. That is because the story is a “non-linear” story and it has a lot of links. It is impossible to read all the links so I have read most of them to analyse the aspect of time in them. But analyse this aspect has not been easy, because “Sister Stories” is not a “normal” story, it is a story of culture, and it is like a story inside another. So there is no really “time” in this hypertext, it is not like a book story with its beginning and its end, no, several times I have felt lost. That is why I have had to do a big effort to analyse the time, thinking about how to do it, and then I have made a good search of websites in order to help myself with this hypertext and in order to put some links in my paper to make like “other hypertext”. I think I have done a good work and that the contents are correct. I don’t know my mark, but I am sure that I have done this paper seriously and working a lot in it, thinking, searching, reading and reading, correcting… In my opinion I would deserve a NOTABLE.

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