مفهوم المصطلح "هايبرتكست"(Hypertext) في النقد الأدبي الرقمي المعاصر

Abstract

The last few decades of the 20th century witnessed an impressive revolution in the field of data communication and technology as represented by the Internet. The development of internet technologies and the services they provide have attracted a large number of writers to join this data revolution in order not to remain outside the scope of this progressing culture. This has resulted in the emergence of literary sites, each of which has writers, editors and correspondents. This has also made some writers publish their work electronically, making use of the data provided by the technology in their literary writing, which, in turn, has been followed by the emergence of new literary genres combining technical attributes with literary ones. The main technical attribute of these new literary genres is the "hypertext".

This essay attempts to define the concept of "hypertext" in the contemporary digital criticism in both the West and the Arab world, as technological and a literary technical. It has also attempted to figure out which strategies were used by the Arab critics in order to translate the concept of "hypertext" and the different "names" that they suggested in Arabic for criticism instead of the term "hypertext".

To conclude, that although the different translations were given in Arabic criticism, there was a prevention about the "hypertext" as a concept. And the multi "names" in Arabic refer to a specific feature of the Arabic language. However, few recommendations are suggested in order to prevent confusion for readers, writers and critics, and to unite the use of concepts in Arabic criticism in general