CONCLUSION

I believe that the spaces in the hyper-text Cutting Edges are vital because they are central for the development of the story. We immediately perceive it reading the subtitle A hyperfiction of love, hate and the war of the sexes, set in the great Pacific Northwest: before beginning to read the text we already know not only the topic but also the setting. The country is important because the story is based on characters that work in a regional magazine that obviously centres on local events.

The editorial office of the monthly instead is the heart of the story, the symbol of the philosophy of life of the characters because it is a free-thinking magazine founded by them, faithful to the 60s spirit in which they ideally still live.

This spirit is conveyed also from the old building in which the office is.

Another important space is the tree on which Matt stay to protest because it also symbolizes the ideals in which they believe.

I think that these are the most important places that express one of the major topic of the hypertext.

As to the other issues, like that of women, I believe that the spaces are not fundamental in order to reflect them but rather they are conveyed from the dialogues among the characters and the facts that unfold with its symbolic significance like the arrival in the downtown of the statue of Portlandia that represents a powerful feminine figure.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Valeria Prota
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