Hypertext and Avant‐Texte in Twentieth‐Century and Contemporary Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23613775 |
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| Authors | Dirk Van Hulle (0000-0002-7066-6313, University of Antwerp, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 139-159 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405177504.ch7 |
| OpenAlex | W1481202591 |
| ISBN | 9781405177504 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Twentieth-century and contemporary literature are characterized by an increased attention to the writing process as an inherent part of the written product. The modernist attempts to convey the experience of time and space resulted in formal experiments that may be regarded as proto-hypertexts. The intrinsically hypertextual structure of literary geneses consisting of blocks of text that are shuffled around during the writing process indicates how useful digital tools can be to map out literary composition histories. This involves yet another translation, this time from manuscript material to digital facsimiles and transcriptions encoded in markup languages, resulting in one of the most useful applications of digital media in literary studies: the study of the hypertextual nature of literary geneses. Some printed books not only contain elements that have the potential of being translated into a hypertext; they also give rise to digital rewritings or new creative hyperfiction.
Art · Hypertext · Linguistics · Literature · Process (computing) · Product (mathematics) · Programming language · Space (punctuation) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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