하이퍼텍스트 서사에서의 시간과 공간

Abstract

We have classified all narratives art including novels as time-art that unfolds on its time axis. But with the advent of digital narrative, narrative art seems to show interest in the many effects as space-art, going beyond of time-art. In hypertext narrative that is a field of digital narrative the tendency is quite plain. I can say the same thing about 99 Persons’ Last Train. I found out weakened time and strengthened space in this text. Fragmentation of time decreased importance of a causal flow and chain of time. A broken time, which is optional without respect to causal chain, reads like spacing of time. And uncertain descriptive present brings about insubstantial world, it create non-time. In turn, I would like to suggest that construction of iconic and non-hierarchical space and coexistence of many heterogeneous spaces characterize this text. Because of this distinctive feature, Paradigmatics became more important than syntagmatics. The reinforcement of paradigmatics is a distinctive quality of hypertext narrative, which attempts to sweep the modern subject’s a single viewpoint and observes the world at various standpoints.