Online literature contains both traditional text and hypertext. While traditional text containing ＂hypertextuality＂ provides the foundation for online literature, hypertext as the prevalent signifying medium of the ...Online literature contains both traditional text and hypertext. While traditional text containing ＂hypertextuality＂ provides the foundation for online literature, hypertext as the prevalent signifying medium of the cyberworld has awakened the latent energy and spirit of traditional text, making the latter more open, more autonomous and more interactive. The literature of ＂bits＂ points to the direction of future development. It deconstructs the traditional and overturns the nature of things through decentered ＂online reading and writing＂ that is uncertain and nonlinear. Hand in hand with post-modernism, hypertext has transformed literature＇s context and mode of existence. Above all, the shift to hypertext in online literature is transforming our mode of thinking and value criteria in relation to literature and aesthetics. We should therefore conduct in-depth and long-term explorations of how online literature may innovate while maintaining tradition.展开更多
文摘Online literature contains both traditional text and hypertext. While traditional text containing ＂hypertextuality＂ provides the foundation for online literature, hypertext as the prevalent signifying medium of the cyberworld has awakened the latent energy and spirit of traditional text, making the latter more open, more autonomous and more interactive. The literature of ＂bits＂ points to the direction of future development. It deconstructs the traditional and overturns the nature of things through decentered ＂online reading and writing＂ that is uncertain and nonlinear. Hand in hand with post-modernism, hypertext has transformed literature＇s context and mode of existence. Above all, the shift to hypertext in online literature is transforming our mode of thinking and value criteria in relation to literature and aesthetics. We should therefore conduct in-depth and long-term explorations of how online literature may innovate while maintaining tradition.
