Hypotext

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title: Hypotext
text: Hypotext is an earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature, or hypertext. For example, Homer's Odyssey could be regarded as the hypotext for James Joyce's Ulysses. The word was defined by the French theorist Gérard Genette as follows "Hypertextuality refers to any relationship uniting a text B to an earlier text A, upon which it is grafted in a manner that is not that of commentary." So, a hypertext derives from hypotext(s) through a process which Genette calls tr
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description: Earlier text; source of a subsequent piece of literature
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