Compare Hypertext Literature With Traditional Literature In Print By Giving Some Significant Examples

Hypertext literature has links,sound,video,picture...and so on.

Example:hypertext fiction:So That You Might Hear Me,Victory Garden,A Tale of Two Cities...and so on.

hypertext poem:Submariner,Insomnia.

non-fiction hypertext work:Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)],Singin’ in the Rain- A Hypertextual Reading

Lies,The Valley of the Shadow...and so on.

All of their have the important characteristic is link,it is the major difference with traditional literature.

The other difference is the hypertext literature reading sequence is variable.

The traditional literature reading sequence is fixed.

example:traditional ,hypertext:Lies

But some of hypertext literature reading sequence is fixed:Submariner

Traditional literatures are not more easily to conserve.

Although now some traditional literatures put in internet and be able to conserve easily.

But this works do not call hypertext.

Hypertext work is easy to conserve.

Because hypertext works have multiple selectivity.

So this is the major feature of hypertext works.

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