Hypertext and the Scholarly Archive: Intertexts, Paratexts and Metatexts at Work. Dalgaard, R. In pages 175-184.
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With the Web, hypertext has become the paradigmatic rhetorical structure of a global and distributed archive. This paper argues that the scholarly archive is going though a process of hypertextualization that is not adequately accounted for in theories on hypertext. A methodological approach based on Gerard Genettes theory of transtextuality is proposed for a study of the hypertextualized archive. This involves a rejection of the reductionist opposition of hypertext and the fixed linear text, in favor of a study of the intertexts, paratexts and metatexts that work at the interface between texts and archive. I refer to this as second-order textuality.
@inproceedings{ dal01,
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  author = {Rune Dalgaard},
  title = {Hypertext and the Scholarly Archive: Intertexts, Paratexts and Metatexts at Work},
  pages = {175-184},
  doi = {10.1145/504216.504262},
  uri = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=504216.504262},
  uri = {http://imv.au.dk/~runed/pub/dalgaard_acmht01.pdf},
  abstract = {With the Web, hypertext has become the paradigmatic rhetorical structure of a global and distributed archive. This paper argues that the scholarly archive is going though a process of hypertextualization that is not adequately accounted for in theories on hypertext. A methodological approach based on Gerard Genettes theory of transtextuality is proposed for a study of the hypertextualized archive. This involves a rejection of the reductionist opposition of hypertext and the fixed linear text, in favor of a study of the intertexts, paratexts and metatexts that work at the interface between texts and archive. I refer to this as second-order textuality.}
}

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