A characteristic that you haven't mentioned, Neville, is that in hypertext
the reader has an option not to fire the link *and the link can have a
various exit - it's multi-linearity rather than non-linearity
I wouldn't agree that Finnegan's Wake is non-linear. A man who starts a book
half way through a sentence which begins at the end of the book and loops
back to the beginning with the readers' cooperation is working linearly even
if it is an unusual linearity
One may jump about in FW of course; and I am sure the text survives that
better than many other texts - jump about in Jane Austen and the experienced
text is going to be considerably changed from Austen's; but jumping about in
FW is the reader imposing hypertext links upon a text which is not
hypertextual
As to polysemy... that *is an interesting remark; but the intersection of
many texts arises from the multiplicity of sources Joyce used...
There are different kinds and methods of production of polysemy and all
texts' meanings are reader-generated to a degree. I disagree with your claim
that P & P does not allow reader investment. Or do I read P & P wrongly?
| Finnegans wake is so polysemous as to disrupt all
| notions of linerality
disagree - over and above the example given above
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "neville attkins" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 02 January 2001 09:41
Subject: Re: hypertext suggestions anyone?
| 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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