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Both undergraduate and graduate sections of the
Günter Grass: Writing a
Nation course worked together to make an internet
hypertext out of the first three chapters of Grass's book
Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben
aus. The students identified the strands themselves
and chose which strand they, individually, would specifically read
for and excerpt. One student took the files submitted and created
links from key words to each strand based on a color code. The page
numbers from the print text were left in the original positions for
orientation and comparison.
The reader will be able either to peruse the text in the order
that Grass printed it or follow any one of several narrative strands;
and certainly, the reader has the option to switch back and forth
between the conventional narrative order and any or all of the
narrative strands at any time. We challenge you, the reader, to
consider in what way your reading experience changes as a result of
the translation to a different medium. Is this the same text?
Since so many different people worked on various parts, students performed
most of the tasks simply using Microsoft Word, including the HTML capabilities.
In other words, we traded ease of exchanging files during a group project for
other problems with the end result: extraneous code, etc. If you use any
fairly new browser like Apple's Safari, Firefox, newer versions of Netscape,
or even Explorer, you should be able to read it without formatting anomalies.
Regardless of the browser, the reader is afforded the opportunity to follow
different narrative strands.
Einstiegsliteratur in das Thema
"Hypertext"
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