little table comparing pride and prejudice vs
Finnegans wake as hypertext
Characteristics I associate with hypertext:
non-linerality, the intersection of many texts,
large reader investment in construction of meaning, in
short polysemy:
To each characteristic in turn I would say that:
non linerality :finnegans Wake: yep , P and P:nope
intersection: finnegans wake: yep , P and P nope
reader investment: finnegans wake:yep, P and P: nope
There are some elemenents within P and P that could be
said to multi textual eg narrative voices,
description, reported speech from different
characters. But these do not contribute to polysemy as
such
Finnegans wake is so polysemous as to disrupt all
notions of linerality and leaves the reader figuring
over the fragments it is this fragmentation brought on
by the polysemy which i would call hypertextuality.
Have I got the wrong end of the stick here?
neville
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