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The Penetration To Each Other Between Digital Technology And Literature

Posted on:2009-11-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q YuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245958453Subject:Literature and art
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Hypertext fiction is a new literary modality. It is come out at the era which is the fast developing of the computer and the information technology. It asks for help the chain of the calculator to connect hardware equipmentses, such as the technique and screen and mouse...etc. and is deferent from the tradition paper literature and manifests the current of interaction between the development of technology and literature at the era post-industry. The text borrows ideas from Benjamin's theory which is about production of art. It starts from analyzing the technologic element in hyper text. It posts the new quality of literature which is brought from digital technology, to dig the new characteristic of digital technology and literature at the era of post-industry. Just about these new characteristics lay a foundation for the amalgamation of digital technology and literature.In hyper text, the technology of man-machine interface which is contains hyperlink, screen, mouse and so on has been a part of text. It is not only the carrier of the text, even enters the text, and has been part of the text's trait, configuration and meaning. It changes the text; give it dynamic scenario, uncertain narrative style and colorful meaning.Bases from Benjamin who consider technology is a kind of art fertility, hyper text which is the production of coalescent between digital technology and literature gives literature new characteristics at the digital era. See from the creations angle, Hyper text makes literature enter the era of man-machine cooperation. The digital art for example the hyper text must make by the writer and computer, people must share the production from the computer. Seeing the process of the literature activity, intertextuality and intersubjectivity are outstanding in the process of literature action of hypertexfictions. Every Hypertextfiction is made of lots of text segments, interaction of which forms the whole work. The meaning of the work must present through the combination of every segment, and changes along with the open of new segment; In the process of acception, the meaning must come true in the communication between reader and text. At the same time, readers, writers and texts can communicate at the linked points. Seeing the text oneself, The dummy character of the hypertext makes reproducible character become the inwardness which occurs concomitant the indite technology of hyper text, and make absence of spirit. Hypertextfiction brings about the aesthetic feeling of "get lost" and "shocking", which make it become another production which is the result of copy technology and art after movie. But it is different from the art manner at the mechanical copying era. As a result of affection between copy technology and art, it is no longer a consumptive system or a kind of consume, it has been a system which contains product and consume, and the popularization of literature also becomes the demand of the consistency between the criterion inside and the developing of social history.We can find the literature and technology is forming a relationship of hybridity from the characteristics and occurrence of the hyper text. There are three reasons of this current. First of all, digital technology, which is different from the technology at the industrial era, its main action is to change the concept into the technology of character of operation, for example, rules, code and so on. It give prominence to some "soft" actor such as concept, value form and so on. It makes technology a part of our daily life; In contrast, the art of post-modernization pursue in a popular style. It try to mix literature and life, it make art enter life by the method for example copy, collage, parody and so on. Another reason is the development of computer and internet. We have familiarized the digital life style because of the prevalence of computer for half centuries. to indite the art and literature has been a part of digital life in computer or on the internet. These three reasons offer fecund soil and the nourishment of development for the appearance of hypertext.The appearance and prevalence of digital technology give a new chance to the development of art and literature, however, there is some bad affection. For instance, The enjoyable attitude of playing of art by technology, the frame is too dispersed to make the crisis of reading and the weakening of art impact and so on. So today when the development of digital technology has not been very mature, we should cheer for the life force which is bought by digital technology, at the same the , we must guard and keep calmness for the liability of technologism by it.
Keywords/Search Tags:Hypertext technology, Hypertextfiction, New quality of literature, Soft technology, Popularize, Hybridity
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