Question 7: An illustration of how the web can be used to create a reading experience that would not be possible in an ordinary book.
Welcome to 'The Hypertext Novel Experience'!
This site is
designed to introduce the hypertext novel, and the implications the form has,
to the reader of conventional novels. The example used is a hypertext version
of the first chapter of Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
After you've explored the hypertext
version, you'll be asked to consider the differences in the reading experience
between the hypertext version and the book. This will lead to a discussion of
the hypertext form, the effect hypertext has on the reader, and finally the
influence that the hypertext novel must have on literary theory.
The author of this site is a final year student of English Language and Literature at Oxford Univerisity, and has taken the course: 'E-Lit: IT and English Literature'. Last modified: 14/03/02