Hypertext and the scholarly archive: intertexts, paratexts and metatexts at work

  • Authors:
  • Rune Dalgaard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Aarhus, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

With the Web, hypertext has become the paradigmatic rhetorical structure of a global and distributed archive. This paper argues that the scholarly archive is going though a process of hypertextualization that is not adequately accounted for in theories on hypertext. A methodological approach based on Gerard Genettes theory of transtextuality is proposed for a study of the hypertextualized archive. This involves a rejection of the reductionist opposition of hypertext and the fixed linear text, in favor of a study of the intertexts, paratexts and metatexts that work at the interface between texts and archive. I refer to this as second-order textuality.