Hypertext Reading And Writing And Intertext Writing 1h4225

Hypertext Reading and Writing and Intertext Writing Hypertext – is when you type a word and attach a link to that word so that upon clicking on that word, the reader is sent to the site attached. A hypertext is looks like this: Google Hyperlink – is when you type the link of the website you would like to quickly send the reader. A hyperlink looks like this: www.google.com or “facebook” that links to the facebook page. The World Wide Web (www) is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet. Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web enabling s to click on link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same site or from website anywhere in the world. The term “Hypertext” was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963. Hypertext was developed in the early 1990s by Tin Berners-Lee and Robert Cailiau at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. Hypertext materials include pictures, video materials animated and audio illustrations. All those possibilities make hypertext materials content high and suitable for educational purposes.

Intertextuality - is a literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates related understanding in separate works. Intertertexuality - is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody. It may be the retelling or writing of an old story in modern context. Example: A Tempest by Aimee Cesaire Aimee Cesaire’s play, “A tempest” is an adaptation of the “Tempest” by William Shakespeare. The Author parodies Shakespeare’s play from post – colonial point of view. Cesaire also changes the livelihood and races of her characters. For example, he transforms the occupation of Prospero, who was a magician, and changes into a slave – owner, and also changes Ariel in Mulatto. Although he was a spirit, Cesaire, like Phys, makes use of a famous literary piece in literature, and put a twist on it in order to express the themes of power, slavery and colonialism.