Educational Hypertexts

[Note: The system is not online because of copyright issues, this is only the introduction. Links will work only to the entry page of each hypertext, but not within the hypertexts, if you want more information please mail me]

You will navigate a web of sensual perceptions made out of selected texts from the first, second, third and fourth chapters of A Portrait. You can start by picking up one sense, and then follow the various items. Each item starts a sequence, so that for example, if you click on "warm", there is not only one fragment about this particular perception, but you can continue the sequence using the arrows below the text and visit the 12 fragments that talk about this matter. All fragments are thus connected to many others in their sequences, senses, and quite a few fragments participate from different senses.

This hypertext plays with the building up of symbolic structure that the Portrait achieves through the careful handling of cyclic repetition and re-interpretation, where the senses play a very important role. Hypertextual sinesthesia becomes interestingly different from textual sinesthesia. Or doesn't it? When you've seen enough of the hypertext, we want you to give us your interpretation by clicking on the link "Add your opinion" in the left handside menu. Then you can "View Discussion", and see what different people think about the senses, does it apply to what you have seen in the text of the Portrait? Your contribution will be added to the net of discussion.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: All quotes from Joyce's novel refer to the 1992 Seamus Deane Penguin edition, based on the 1964 Chester Anderson Viking Press edition.