The article provides theoretical background to the idea of hypertext as a device of composition in fictional and nonfictional texts. Both fictional and nonfictional texts can be interpreted and located by authors / readers as more or less credible from the point of view of objective reality. Practical analysis of texts by P. Ackroyd shows that the result of text interpretation as fiction or nonfiction depends on the text composition qualities introduced into it by the author. The hypothesis is to establish a cognitive graded scale, presented as a chart, which allows to attribute texts as fiction or nonfiction on the grounds of actual usage of hypertext as stylistic means and a form traditional for scientific writing. Hypertext as a literary device may be used both in fiction to create a formal effect of verisimilitude, and in nonfiction as an established device for organization of objective information.
Key words: fiction, nonfiction, hypertext, narratology, cognitive gradual scale, text typology.
Reference to article:
Bogatikova Ju. A. Hypertext as the parameter of cognitive gradual scale fiction — nonfiction in works by P. Ackroyd // Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series «The Humanities». 2020. No.4. P. 41-45.