From text to hypertext II. Ellipsis and the internal limits of text

Abstract

This work is the second part of an article already published in the previous number of Estudios de teoría literaria, where we tried to address the problem of the internal limits of the text topology as an object of literary studies and in the context of the emergence of the theory of possible texts. Based on the concept of hypertext, in the previous work as in the current one, we tried to complete a topological formulation of the text that, some time ago, we began studying the external limits of the text, that is, those linked to its context and the implication of the reading subject (at the time we called it counter-text). In the first part previously published, we addressed the irony as one of the hypertextual paradigms that allow us to understand the spatiality of an object that supports the practice of the possible texts theory as emerging in the current state of the discipline. We now propose, following closely the proposal of Gerard Genette, to approach the ellipsis paradigm as a fundamental rethorical figure in the topological configuration of the text.

Keywords

• texto
• límites internos
• hipertexto
• topología
• elipsis