Hypertext 2

 

 

             The thing I found the most interesting in My Body is a Wunderkammer and Entre Ville is how they are able to use the medium of hypertext with things other than just words to make the narrative more impactful. The drawings in My Body is a Wunderkammer add a layer to the story that I think would be hard to achieve without them, and takes advantage of hypertext in a very effective way. Since you're clicking through the pages without really knowing where they will take you make the images jump out and set an expectation of what what happen on the page, kind of like a chapter title. I also found that I really like the body being the theme of a hypertext story and I think it works very well. Since the body can be so easily broken down into different parts it makes a lot of sense that a medium such as hypertext would lend itself well to a story about it. The way the narrator obsesses over their body also works really well since multiple links will go to the same page, you get the feeling of obsession.

 

 I think Entre Ville uses hypertext to an even greater degree since so much of it are the pop up windows with the videos that are throughout the piece. It gave me the feeling of exploring more than reading a piece of literature more than any other piece we have looked at so far. Additionally, I liked how the text in the middle of the screen had to be scrolled through slowly to read because I think it adds to the feeling of exploration, and of wandering through a city.