After reading 'Weaving Textual Webs' and '253'
We can see the novel 253 creatively disrupts textual linearity, being an instance of hypertextuality. By gaining access to the different links, we get an insight into the lives and thoughts of each passenger in the seven carriages. As one link leads to the others, we can see the story of one passenger is somehow related to another, their lives being interrelated.
What is
amazing about this kind of fiction is that the reader has the freedom to decide
what to read next (which link to click on), thus unfolding a different plot each time, and weaving a web of intertextual parallels. We as readers feel excited to see a
new world of meanings being created. The decision taken will influence the development, and we can decide when to put end to the narrative.
As regards the questions posed at the end of the article, answering to question 1, I feel that to read an inconclusive work is a really thrilling experience, as the reader feels intrigued as to which of the countless endings they will come across. Finding the same lexia again and again can lead the author to consider it in a new way each time, as the same choice of words can convey a wide variety of meanings in the same context.
About question number 3, I don't think hyperfiction really challenges our concept of narrative but, even if textual linearity is disrupted, we can reconstuct some form of narrative line, as there will always be a start with a setting, a conflict and some resolution.
For question number 4, hyperfiction can be very innovative in the pedagogical field in the sense that, when making Ss predict, teachers can be aware pupils are more likely to read a plot that matches their expectations, as they can go thought the same 'hypernovel' more than once in order to unfold a different story each time.
As regards the questions posed at the end of the article, answering to question 1, I feel that to read an inconclusive work is a really thrilling experience, as the reader feels intrigued as to which of the countless endings they will come across. Finding the same lexia again and again can lead the author to consider it in a new way each time, as the same choice of words can convey a wide variety of meanings in the same context.
About question number 3, I don't think hyperfiction really challenges our concept of narrative but, even if textual linearity is disrupted, we can reconstuct some form of narrative line, as there will always be a start with a setting, a conflict and some resolution.
For question number 4, hyperfiction can be very innovative in the pedagogical field in the sense that, when making Ss predict, teachers can be aware pupils are more likely to read a plot that matches their expectations, as they can go thought the same 'hypernovel' more than once in order to unfold a different story each time.
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