Introduction

This is a paper about one of the funniest Peter Howard’s Hypertexts. I’m talking about The Darkness of Summer.

This hypertext focus on the light, and to make this action it joins the image mixed with the scripture. The main image is a gift that shows the different positions of the moon.

I have chosen the time aspect of this text because I think is really interesting to go deep inside the topic and seeing each word and explaining what they’re there for and seeing the deep structure from a different point of view that isn’t the author’s view.

In order to study the time I have analyse first of all word for word, next between lines and finally the structure from an overview.

I also have some information about the author and his web pages links.

The author

Peter Howard of course, is an important hypertext writer, he plays, as all the other writers of hypertext, with the human sense and plays with the structure of the text to make it clearer o maybe unclear.

We have probably never heard about this writer, at least I didn’t hear about him until this year in class.

Who is Peter Howard?

Description of Howard.

What’s the text about?

The hypertext is a mixture of scenes, all happening at the same time. The text begins with two questions, and these two in another two ones each of them.

Then you choose several possibilities in order to create a story.

During the largest part of the text, the topic is all the same; the moon, the sun, the heaven and the shadows.

The action begins with the light on the tunnel, and is like a person awaking in the middle of an adventure or murder story. It’s full of topics as the hero, the villains and the girl.

We could say it’s a mysterious story, and also it deals about a personal story, because the writer is telling his life in the present and at the same time he is telling his life in the past, and also at the same time telling a story mixed with things that don’t make sense if you put them all together, but they do have that sense if you read the text page for page and word for word.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Gemma Verdú Trescolí
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Universitat de València Press