Hypertext and Intertext
Hypertext and Intertext
It acts as a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called
gender of knowledge representation: free and shortcut
Intertext
• Is the shaping of a text's meaning by
another text. (Julia Kristeva)”Any text is
the absorption and transformation of
another.”
• It is a literary device that creates an
“interrelationship” between “ texts” and
generates mutual understanding in separate
works.
• Is borrowing “ideas” and “themes” from
other media forms ( text, audio files,
movies, theater).
TYPES OF Intertextuality
1. OBLIGATORY INTERTEXTUALITY
-when a writer deliberately
involves comparison or association between two or
more texts.
2. OPTIONAL INTERTEXTUALITY
-It is possible find a connection
to multiple texts of a single phase, or no
connection at all.
3. ACCIDENTAL INTERTEXTUALITY
-when a reader often connects a
text with another text, cultural practice or a
personal experience.
Methods of Intertextuality
1. Retelling
- it is the restatement of a story
or re-expression of a narrative.
2. Quotation
- it is the method of directly
lifting the exact statements or set of words from a
text another author has made.
3. Allusion
- a writer or speaker explicitly or
implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in
another text without the use of quotation.
4. Pastiche
-it is a text developed in a way that it
copies the style or other properties of another
text without making fun of it unlike in a
parody.