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III:12. In so far as intertextuality has problematized the notion of closure, however,
the situation is more complex. Despite the priority of intertextuality as a concept, the physicality of
the textual object (in codexspace) contributes to a sense of closure, and the related notions of, for example,
“author”ization/ity, integretity, position in the textual hierarchies of aesthetic/critical value,
“primary” vs.
“secondary” material, and so on. Since hypertextual forms may bracket or disrupt the
physical closure of
the text, they clearly have potential to “open” the text to these underlying critical problems,
and to
popularize, or at least make familiar, literary works which exploit this field of openness.
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