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<journal-title>Global Journal of Human-Social Science - G: Linguistics &amp; Education</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-587X</issn>
<issn publication-format="electronic">2249-460X</issn>
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<article-title>Temporal and Spatial Coordinates in Hypertext Fiction</article-title>
<subtitle>Hypertext and the Evolution of Digital Literature</subtitle>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mebuke</surname><given-names>Tamar</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<aff id="aff1">GEORGIA, Georgian Technical University</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-07-31">
<day>31</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<volume>23</volume>
<issue>G7</issue>
<fpage>21</fpage>
<lpage>24</lpage>
<abstract><p>Electronic literature, or hypertext fiction, as a new trend in the development of literary works, demonstrates ever-lasting, inexhaustible search for new ways of self-expression by human mind which goes along with investigations and exploitations of new possibilities modern technologies provide for composition of works of fiction that belong to the age-old literary genres. The structure of a hypertext provides a way to link and get access to multiple parts of a text that are joined by various types of relations as a web of nodes. By choosing a certain link from an available number of options, a reader makes a leap in time and, consequently, in space, that is changes what M. Bakhtin defined as a chronotope –a constitutive unit of form and content in literature that combines spatial and temporal parameters into one whole, into a system of coordinates for a certain narrative action. A linked structure of a hypertext, organized into a network of fragments and connections between them forms “a mosaic” of chronotopes. A change of time dimension entails a change of space dimension and results in constant change of chronotopes creating the effect of a kaleidoscope each turn of which forms a new picture from available parts.</p></abstract>
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<p>Electronic literature, or hypertext fiction, as a new trend in the development of literary works, demonstrates ever-lasting, inexhaustible search for new ways of self-expression by human mind which goes along with investigations and exploitations of new possibilities modern technologies provide for composition of works of fiction that belong to the age-old literary genres. The structure of a hypertext provides a way to link and get access to multiple parts of a text that are joined by various types of relations as a web of nodes. By choosing a certain link from an available number of options, a reader makes a leap in time and, consequently, in space, that is changes what M. Bakhtin defined as a chronotope -- a constitutive unit of form and content in literature that combines spatial and temporal parameters into one whole, into a system of coordinates for a certain narrative action. A linked structure of a hypertext, organized into a network of fragments and connections between them forms â€œa mosaicâ€ of chronotopes. A change of time dimension entails a change of space dimension and results in constant change of chronotopes creating the effect of a kaleidoscope each turn of which forms a new picture from available parts.</p>
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