Text, hypertext and intertext in the works of J. Morrison

The poetic text is an observable open language system that has a hierarchical structure and can stay in a static and a dynamic condition. The property of observability of the poetic text gives information about the processes occurring within it. The text as a static system is unchanged. At the same time, its dynamics indicates the existence of various meanings of the points of instability of the text, that is, a development trajectory of the text. Under the open character of the poetic text, the authors understand its ability to exchange information with other texts through intertextual connections. Within the intertextual approach, the instability point can be represented as a text unit (word, phrase, sentence), allowing many contextual values due to the intertextual relations with similar units within the same or different compositions of the external and the internal text space. The internal text space includes all the texts of the author, the external text space includes all the other texts of the semiosphere. The interaction of these two spaces as well as the texts of the outer space is realised with the help of the intextual type of communication. The interaction of the internal space texts occurs through the hypertextual type of communication. Hypertextuality includes relations between the works of an individual author, the relation of the text to its title, subtitle, epigraph and notes, as well as the author's comments on the peculiarities of the text construction. Intextuality applies to every text of the semiosphere that engages in dialogue with different works through various types of reminiscences. The article proposes the following mechanism of instability points selection: 1. To allocate a unit of the poetic text (word, phrase, sentence) which is an intertextual reference. 1.1. To establish which texts this one is related with. 1.2. To allocate a similar unit in each of the found texts. 2. To characterise the intertextual relations between the poetry unit and similar units in other texts. To do this, it is necessary: 2.1. To identify the type of the text (internal or external) which includes units of texts that are related to the unit of the poetic text. 2.2. To determine the type of intertex-tual relations (intextuality, hypertextuality) and means of achieving this (allusion, citation, mention, self-allusion, self-citation). 3. To determine the meanings of each of these pieces of texts. 3.1. To determine the semantic changes of the original fragment of the poetic text in the case of sequential substitution of the meaning of its units by similar units of other texts. If all the above steps are completed successfully, the unit of the poetic text can be considered to be a point of instability.

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