Hyperliterature and Intermediality in the Expansion of Literary Production

Abstract

The so-called ‘Information Revolution,' which begun in the 1990s and generated a global system of expansion of the virtual space, imposed reconfigurations on artistic expressions. In regard to literature, one sees not only the transposition of consecrated genres and textual forms into digital media, but also the creation of a specifically digital literature, one that is often marked by intermediality. The present article aims at approaching concepts such as ‘hypertext' and ‘hyper-writing', and the phenomena linked to digital textualities as ‘hyperfiction', ‘hyperpoetry', ‘holopoetry' and ‘hyperdrama', among others; besides, it also raises the question: to what extent does hyperliterature interfere with the status of “conventional literature” written and read in paper?