Meaning within narratives has made dramatic changes between the time of early oral story telling and the rise of the World Wide Web. Before the printing press meaning was limited to an ascribed source, usually the Church or a ruling person or government. With the mass production provided by the printing press, printed text still had an ascribed meaning with the meaning of a text under the control of the creator of the text. Now with the use of the World Wide Web, meaning has made a shift unparalleled in human discourse. In the non-linear and unstable environment of the Internet meaning within narrative is more of an arbitrary means to an end.
The medium used to distribute narrative affects the evolution of the narrative.
As narrative is valuable and grows by an evolutionary process the rate by
which the use of the Internet is growing should make literature evolve at a
rate never conceived of before. The meaning within a narrative on the World
Wide Web can change instantly. On the Internet Meaning no longer has
meaning of any determinable value.
In the past the broadest categories for literary forms has been prose and
verse. These forms now merge with nodes of prose and nodes of verse linking
to one
another. Because of the unstable nature of the Internet this merging of
various forms is becoming evident even in linear traditional written texts.
An example of this merged form which is written as a traditional linear text
and is also available on the Internet can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/hi/OURCHILD/
TRYTHIS.html. Here prose and poetry meet on the same page and meaning is
dependant on whether the reader reads the poems which intercepts the
narrative's linear direction.
Most literature in modern times is printed but long before there was the printing
press there was a long
history of oral narrative.
Oral narrative dates back to ancient Greece and was an important part of
Medieval Europe life. Travelling poets
entertained audiences by
reciting and performing their works prior to the rise of the printing press.
On the Internet narrative creators are considered to be travelling
the electronic highway as they place their stories on the World Wide Web.
When printing began making its mark on the world some of
the first narratives printed were about adventures in the New World.
Contemporary with
the invention of the printing press were the discoveries of the Americas.
The
Conquistadors brought back and had printed their stories of
narrative acres settled and developed by
the new form of interactive literature.
Michael St. Hippolyte describes his web site,
"Mumble Jumble",
as,
'Mumbo Jumbo is a few acres of jungle and beachfront on the Web, hoping to
provide a taste of
passion and its nobler fruits. Passion: the collective name for mysterious
emotive forces
churning just below the margin of our consciousness, shooting inspiration from
time to time
into the blue sky of the human imagination.'
Michael St. Hippolyte
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Leigh Neuage 6th July 1983 - 16th August 2003 every place I go I go with you ~ thanks for being always with me always. I only wish I could be with you. Everyday is more difficult than the one before. 03 September 2010.
~
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Terrell Neuage (Adsit) ~
update 10 December 2010
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