论超文本叙事的符号变异与美学困境

On the Symbolic Variation and the Aesthetic Predicament of Hypertext Narrative

在超文本语境中,语义化的符号会增殖为非语义化的链接符号,二者相互隔绝会使文字符号本身产生内爆,即文字图像性的记写符号与其所包含的语音、语义的背离,最终使超文本阅读产生一种表意上的"游牧式"延异。超文本文字叙事的意义难于确定,引发了图像叙事和游戏叙事,图像交互使超文本获得了另一种被读者接受的可能。超文本美学研究不论是在欧美还是在国内都乏善可陈,主要原因在于传统的美学理论资源已发掘殆尽,而图像入侵和空间关系或许可成为超文本叙事研究新的理论生长点。

In the context of hypertext, the semantic symbol can also proliferate as a non-semantic link symbol, the separation of the two able to lead to an implosion inside the symbols themselves in that the deviation of writing symbols of character image from the sound and meaning that they contain may eventually result in a＂nomadic＂difference of ideographical expression in the reading of the hypertext. The difficulty in determining the meaning of hypertext narrative induces image-based and game-based narrations as the image-based interaction provides the readers with another possibility that they may find acceptable. However, research on hypertext aesthetics is inadequate in either Europe or America as much as it is in China mainly because the traditional resources of aesthetics theory have been almost exhausted, with the result that image intrusion and spatial relationship may become new theoretical growing points for hypertext narrative research.