STRUCTURAL, SEMANTIC, ALGORITHMIC, COMMUNICATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL CRITERIA FOR TYPOLOGIZING ELECTRONIC LITERARY TEXTS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to typology of electronic literary texts. The objective of the study is to identify the main criteria for typologizing electronic literary texts. A particular task of the research is a detailed analysis of electronic literary hypertext based on the developed categories of typologization of the phenomenon under study. The theoretical significance of the research is that it contributes to the development of text typology by developing universal criteria that allow to systematize not only the currently existing types of electronic literary texts, but also those that will be updated in the future. By the type of electronic literary text, the author understands a historically determined model of text construction that reflects the structural and functional features of a certain group of electronic literary texts. The main purpose of constructing a typology of electronic literary texts is to identify and formulate invariant features for certain types of electronic literary works, while variable or optional features due to both linguistic and extralinguistic factors are subject to fixation and detailed description when analyzing a particular work. Proposed typology of electronic literary texts based on structural, semantic, algorithmic, communicative and functional criteria, which include: type of fixing the electronic structure of the literary text with the help of software algorithm, type of interactivity (selective, reactive, productive), specificity of time limits (speed limits); use of monoregister or polyregister verbal blocks, as well as representation of register types (reproductive, informative, generative, voluntary, reactive). Based on the proposed criteria, the researcher describes the electronic literary text “Twelve Blue” by M. Joyce, published as part of the StorySpace project.