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Experimental texts of modern and postmodern literature exhibit hypertextual
qualities. For example, James Joyce's Ulysses abounds in discrete lexial
spaces and in words that open into extensive layers of allusion, and
Finnegans Wake is a hypertextual(ist's) dream. The prose of Virginia Woolf's
The Waves is full of saturated, lyrical moments, and the characters of The
Waves are monads connected in a loose web. Gertrude Stein, in The Making of
Americans, uses chunks of prose segments arranged in an associational and
anti-hierarchical construction. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is
hypertextually encyclopedic, with more than 300 characters and as many
narrative spaces, including interstitial spaces between nodes or links, and
the interweaving of a myriad of texts and discourses ranging from salacious
jingles to historical exposition to quantum mechanics. Vladimir Nabokov's
Pale Fire is ironically intertextual, coercing the reader to engage in
cross-reference movements that interrupt simple linear progression through
the narrative. Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler offers the
beginnings of ten narrative paths.

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