![]() This explains that hypertext offers you something more than a normal story. People also love to break rules on their own terms.” (2) People love rules, which is one reason for the durability of games in culture. Much of this, of course, has to do with rules. “We typically come to a mystery novel much as we agree to a meeting with friends for coffee or a sip of wine: familiar images, rehashed tales, and the intimacy of shared experience and knowledge. You are basically in control of the order in which you read things and what you read. You can click different things that lead you to different places. There are more possibilities with hypertext than there are when reading a normal book. This explains that you interact with the hypertext, and it allows you to change the story and the elements. In this sense also, Patchwork Girl is not simply one more text that reflects the aesthetics of fragmentation and hybridity it is a hypertext that allows for material and technological possibilities that would be unthinkable in a printed version.” (1) “Not only does hypertext, by its very nature, resist closure and allow play, it also partakes of a condition of mutability, as the product leaves room for changes in the format colour, fonts, cascade, etc. Like, you must piece together the different textual elements to come out with the full story. It tells the story through illustration of parts of female body that are stitched together through text and image. It is about her figuring out her identity and her gender identity as well. The plot of Patchwork Girl is about a girl who is “patched” together from different pieces of people, much like Frankenstein, to create a whole structure. Patchwork girl is an electronic literature written in Storyspace by Shelly Jackson. When I was doing some research on hypertext, I stumbled upon Patchwork Girl. You have to become a “cyborg reader” because of the relationship you create with the texts and the attitude you have to adopt. Reading hypertext is not like reading anything else. The text reacts based on what you click and you click what you do based on what the text has given you.Įach thing you click on will lead you to a different lexia, which is the box of text that presents itself to you. This forms a relationship between the reader and the text. You can choose how the story will begin and how it will end, just by what you click on. Hypertext is electronic text that consists of images and blocks of words that are linked together by many different paths that you yourself as the reader can choose. In this week’s workshop, Elliot brought up ‘hypertext’for discussion, which I’m sure is something that everyone has encountered before.
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