INTRODUCTION
11 gener 2010 by rorueso
My research is focused on the hypertext “The meddlesome passenger” where I am going to analyse the section of Tools, which the author, Scott, has used to build it. First of all, I will talk about the “Physical appearance” of the hypertext, and then I will analyse the strategies or tools he uses in the content. At the same time, I would like to talk a little bit about space in the story, because I consider is also very important here.
I have analysed the main characters of the story and the relationship they share with each other, moreover, and I have posted the plot of the story.
In order to make you easier and to let you understand my research, I would like to give you some definitions:
hypertext: “A computer-based text retrieval system that enables a user to access particular locations in web pages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific web pages or documents”.
Hypertext fiction: “Hypertext fiction is a collective effort between reader and writer, where the writer provides interlaced web pages of text and the reader decides what order to read the pages. In some hypertext works, readers can even add their own work to the fiction and change the plot.
“The meddlesome passenger” is a writerly text: “The writerly text is a perpetual present, upon which no consequent language (which would inevitably make it past) can be superimposed; the writerly text is ourselves writing, before the infinite play of the world (the world as function) is traversed, intersected, stopped, plasticized by some singular system (Ideology, Genus, Criticism) which reduces the plurality of entrances, the opening of networks, the infinity of languages.”
When reading a hypertext, it is also useful and advisable to start by reading the author’s biography, because it provides interesting information about him or her and may help you to understand much better the story you are going to read. Unfortunately Scott Rettberg does not have his own website and the information we can find about him on internet is not as much as I would like it was. when clicking on his biography, ta the right hand side of the page, you can see an author’s brief biography and if you click on it, you have also access to his CV.
*More links devoted to the author
BACK TO SECOND PAPER TOOLS SPACE CHARACTERS PLOT CONCLUSION BIOGRAPHY