Hypertext Reading and Writing and Intertext Writing

Hypertext – is when you type a word and attach a link to that word so that upon clicking on that word, the
reader is sent to the site attached. A hypertext is looks like this: Google

Hyperlink – is when you type the link of the website you would like to quickly send the reader. A hyperlink
looks like this: www.google.com or “facebook” that links to the facebook page.

The World Wide Web (www) is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across
the internet.

Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web enabling users to click on link to obtain more
information on a subsequent page on the same site or from website anywhere in the world.

The term “Hypertext” was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963.

Hypertext was developed in the early 1990s by Tin Berners-Lee and Robert Cailiau at the CERN
European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hypertext materials include pictures, video materials animated and audio illustrations. All those
possibilities make hypertext materials content high and suitable for educational purposes.

Intertextuality - is a literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates related
understanding in separate works.

Intertertexuality - is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures

include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.

It may be the retelling or writing of an old story in modern context.

Example:

A Tempest by Aimee Cesaire

Aimee Cesaire’s play, “A tempest” is an adaptation of the “Tempest” by William

Shakespeare. The Author parodies Shakespeare’s play from post – colonial point of view.
Cesaire also changes the livelihood and races of her characters. For example, he transforms the
occupation of Prospero, who was a magician, and changes into a slave – owner, and also
changes Ariel in Mulatto. Although he was a spirit, Cesaire, like Phys, makes use of a famous
literary piece in literature, and put a twist on it in order to express the themes of power, slavery

and colonialism.

Fan fiction
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Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or ff) is fiction about characters or
settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator. Fans
may maintain the creator's characters and settings or add their own. It is a popular form of fan labor,
particularly since the advent of the Internet.
Fan fiction is rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's creator or publisher and is
rarely professionally published. It may or may not infringe on the original author's copyright,
depending on the jurisdiction and on such questions as for whether or not it qualifies as "fair use"
(see Legal issues with fan fiction). Attitudes of authors and copyright owners of original works to fan
fiction have ranged from indifference to encouragement to rejection. Copyright owners have
occasionally responded with legal action.
The term "fan fiction" came into use in the 20th century as copyright laws began to delineate
between stories using established characters that were authorized by the copyright holder and those
that were unauthorized.[1] For earlier works with similar characteristics, see unofficial
sequel or pastiche.
Fan fiction is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe (often referred
to as "canon") and simultaneously existing outside it.[2] Most fan fiction writers assume that their work
is read primarily by other fans, and therefore presume that their readers have knowledge of the
canon universe (created by a professional writer) in which their works are based.