Hypertextopia

We chose ‘Hypertextopia’ since we found it a practical tool to connect the dialogue between Robyn and Vic with elements outside the text and with part of the text itself as well. The tool allowed us to create a network of links which somehow illustrate he scope of the text. Clearly, it stretches beyond its borders and it is linked to other utterances (music, movies, books, etc.)

Hypertextopia also permitted us create visual and audio-visual support to certain features of the dialogue. Some examples are the cover of the book ‘Culture and Anarchy’ Robyn was reading at the beginning as well as Vivaldi’s masterpiece ‘Autumn’ in reference to the season when Robyn would leave for the US. This tool helped us give the reader an insight of how our metal schema triggered different images ideas and concepts in order to make sense of what we were reading . In addition to that, it allowed us, also, to include links with short appositions to clarify certain parts of the dialogue, without interrupting the flow of it.

In view of the fact that ‘Nice Work’ is a postmodern novel, we thought that the tool would be a suitable one. Up to certain extent it permitted us to “make tangible” or illustrate the different links that exist in the text, not only the intratextual ones but the intertextual too. We tried to illustrate graphically the connections that took place in our mind as the dialogue unfolded before our eyes. We add interpretations of important concepts such as love, knowledge and freedom, being subjectivity and concrete experiences main characteristics of postmodernism. As one's feelings and perceptions of the world are relative, we considered it necessary to portray the mismatch between Robyn's rational perception of love and Vic's passionate feelings about her.

(zalazar, Nardone, Ledesma)