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
The emergence of online literature has changed not only the ecology of literary composition and the form of existence of literary texts, but also the modes of dissemination, interpretation and criticism of literature....The emergence of online literature has changed not only the ecology of literary composition and the form of existence of literary texts, but also the modes of dissemination, interpretation and criticism of literature. It also substantially challenges the survival and development of traditional literature. In the course of its development over the past decade, four obvious problems have been highlighted in practice and theoretical research： simple equation of the technological features of the Internet with the features of online literature, misconceptions about online literature, inability to distinguish between the basic traits of online and traditional writing and inability to understand the fundamental theoretical differences between online literary texts and traditional literature.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.
文摘The emergence of online literature has changed not only the ecology of literary composition and the form of existence of literary texts, but also the modes of dissemination, interpretation and criticism of literature. It also substantially challenges the survival and development of traditional literature. In the course of its development over the past decade, four obvious problems have been highlighted in practice and theoretical research： simple equation of the technological features of the Internet with the features of online literature, misconceptions about online literature, inability to distinguish between the basic traits of online and traditional writing and inability to understand the fundamental theoretical differences between online literary texts and traditional literature.
