Text, Hypertext, and Hyperfiction: A Convergence Between Poststructuralism and Narrative Theories

SAGE Open

Ladan Modir¹ 

关键词: hypertext;    poststructuralism;    hypertext theory;    hypertext fiction;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244014528915

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This article briefly surveys the changing theoretical perspectives on text from structuralism to poststructuralism and how they are subsequently accounted for by hypertext theorists to comprehend the emerging genre called hypertext fiction. Some theoretical issues concerning the reading of this genre also will be discussed. The purpose of this study is to illustrate that the radical promises and challenges of digital novels to readers would prove reading and interpretation of conventional texts are far more participatory. This will be accomplished by tracing the evolution of poststructuralists’ concepts of intertextuality, multivocality, decentering, multilinearity, disorientation, and interactivity to find a way out of constant notions of conventional principles of reading.

【 授权许可】

CC BY