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 Cesaires play, A tempest is an adaptation of the Tempest by William

Shakespeare. The Author parodies Shakespeares 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.