Leituras e leitores: textos e hipertextos diante das práticas do virtual

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to establish a dialogue among three different types of books and/or literary texts plataforms by proposing a discussion about the reading process and the reader's presence in If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino; Griffin & Sabine, by Nick Bantock and the hyperfiction Victory Garden, by Stuart Moulthrop. This work intents to show how different literary languages are similar and also differ one from the other in many aspects, but eventually help to build up new forms of composition, dissemination and ownership of writing in the digital age, starting with the action of a reader who changes when navigating the outbranching paths of electronic literature. The origins of the printed book and the changes in the reading process, marked by changes and disruptions in relationships among readers and the different plataforms for literary texts are key characters in this work. The objective is to demonstrate that the acquired habits and experiences man has accumulated have not been invalidated but rather they consolidate new reading processes and reader profiles that are emerging with the digital hypertextuality.