VII. conclusions - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Jul 08
  

  Bill Wolff
  • the presence or absence of visual means have an impact on the  overall aesthetics of the Texts, so that the (virtual) absence  of visual effects in Afternoon makes it appear episodic and epistemologically unstable, the  use of a representational map in Victory Garden restores the coherence of the Text and makes it possible for  the reader to relate to it in the same way as to realistic narratives,  and in Patchwork Girl, the use of the conceptual map as an alternative site of signification  lends it a postmodernist feel.

  • I think that to make the reader more interactive,  a real bricoleur, requires that the reader be provided with more  information about underlying structure. It is only on this metatextual  level that the structuring of hypertext, as well as hyperfiction,  occurs and J. David Bolter has quite fittingly cited Ricoeur writing  about the "followability" and second order writing of hypertext.  Slatin has a similar argument to make:

     

     

    I think of hypertext coherence as appearing at the metatextual  level--that is, at the level where the reader perceives ... 'the  pattern which connects.' ... This metatextual level is perhaps  best represented by a visual map of some kind,...

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