The Hypertextual Mode of Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Anglica Wratislaviensia |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | hypertextuality; Marina Warner; The Leto Bundle; contemporary British novel |
| Description | In The Leto Bundle, her novel of the year 2001, Marina Warner employs all the well-tried features of her writing, whether of her fiction or her non-fiction studies. Among them it is first and foremost a sense of story-telling across time and geographical spaces. In the novel various versions of Titaness Leto's tragic story are gathered together from many sources as recorded in the course of centuries and millennia by different scribes, nuns, monks, storytellers, archeologists and translators. The old texts in turn permeate a contemporary story with its web pages and e-mail messages and merge with them into a hypertext of late twentieth-century imagination. This article examines in what ways the hypertextual mode of Marina Warner's novel reflects the various current notions of hypertextuality. |
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