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Wszystko jest Tekstem? Hipertekstualność jako nowe doświadczenie literatury
All is Text? Hypertextuality As a New Literary Experience

Author(s): Małgorzata Bogaczyk-Vormayr
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Hypertext; Internet literature; Literary forms.

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with models of making literature in the internet. The author argues that Web literature and, more generally, hypertextuality is an issue of extreme importance to our contemporary literary theory and literary-critical studies. Limiting it to the sphere of interest in the media impoverishes the afterthought of understanding and interpretation of a literary text. Definitions of hypertextuality are presented and hypertextual projects (prose, lyrical poetry) traced. A thesis is formulated on hypertextuality as yet another implementation of intertextuality, as a broad concept. The author believes that hypertextuality is part of transformations of literary forms – of a broadly understood deconstruction of forms, and a new experience of language.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 256-269
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish