An Application of Hypertext to Literary Research and Education

1997年，每个研究者都训练自己掌握编写超文本的基本知识和技能，1998年，中村和佐佐木收集了赫尔曼、梅尔维尔和查尔斯狄更斯研究的几乎所有材料，并投入到输入中。佐佐木编纂并记录了托马斯·哈代的《埃塞尔贝塔之手》，并于1998年在伦敦出版。这本书是由佐佐木完成的，他将所获得的知识和编写超文本的技巧应用于托马斯哈代的研究（这是Sasaki的另一个特色），是这个项目的副产品。若岛（他的专长是弗拉基米尔纳博科夫研究）着手注释纳博科夫最困难的两部作品，《微暗的火》和《艾达》，并编写了两部超文本，使读者能够对这两部作品进行交叉参照和非线性阅读。若岛的文章《反重力的想象--乔伊斯、纳博科夫、卡尔维诺》发表于1998年，是一篇寻找技术与文学之间的接口的文章，也是本项目将技术知识应用于文学研究和教育的尝试。

In 1997, each investigator trained himself to acquire the basic knowledge and skill for compiling a hypertext.In 1998, Nakamura and Sasaki collected almost all the materials for Herman Melville and Charles Dickens studies and engaged in inputting them. Sasaki compiled and noted Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta and published it in London, 1998. The book was completed by Sasaki, applying the acquired knowledge and skill of compiling a hypertext to Thomas Hardy study (which is another speciality of Sasaki) and is a by-product of this project.Wakashima (whose speciality is Vladimir Nabokov study) set out to annotate on two of Nabokov's most difficult works, Pale Fire and Ada and compiled two hypertexts which enable readers to make the cross-reference and non-linear reading of these two works. Wakashima's article 'An Imagination of Antigravity-Joyce, Nabokov, Calvino' published in 1998, is an essay to search for the interface between technology and literature, the same attempt of this project to apply the technological knowledge to literary research and education.The summary and samples of the above result of this project will be reported in the booklet which is to be published in March, 1999.