Hypertextuality

As hypertextuality is referred to in the Transtextualitätstheorie by Gérard Genette a form of superposition of texts that does not match the comment, so for example, a later text without the previous would be inconceivable.

An example of hypertextuality is James Joyce's novel " Ulysses " (1922 ), which would not have been without Homer's Odyssey may arise. In Genette's terminology would be referred to as Hypertext and Homer's Odyssey as Hypo text in this example, James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

In the context of hypertext is called hypertextuality also frequently summarize their characteristic features such as intertextuality, nonlinearity, Nichtsequentialität, decontextualization, Rekombinatorik, interception, associativity, etc..