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Text Journal, Special Issue: Creative Writing s Research, Volume 16 Number 15
This work investigates the problem of reconceptualising narrative in an era of digitised communication (see, Egan 2010). The Edge explores questions of narrative coherence, discontinuity and loss by recruiting web-based concepts and techniques for writing fiction. Borrowing a popular online textual mode, the ‘wiki’ page, the story is composed of interrelated fragments or vignettes. Its themes are enmeshed with its methodological frame: fragmentation, isolation, the randomness of loss and the pursuit of literary form. The piece responds to Muecke’s call for writing that finds ‘a form that answers to its urgency’ (2010). In this sense, The Edge employs the wiki as a textual referent, an ‘objective correlative’ (Eliot 1921) against which the characters and their stories intersect and unfold, linking disparate textual elements. The wiki structure provides an innovative approach to the methodological and conceptual investigation of narrative writing within the context of contemporary communication. The story is not presented as an actual wiki page and does not contain active hyperlinks, but this is a feature being in future work.
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The love of a good narrative: Textuality and digitality2006 •
Transylvanian Review
The Change of Medium and the Medium That Changes: Narrative Literature, Networks and the Digital2019 •
This article approaches the second major change of medium that literature went through, from print to digital, and it explores how this change influenced the reading and understanding of narratives. The appearance of the digital created the need for the definition of new terminological webs and facilitated the emergence of a corpus of literary works. This study provides a comparative description of the digital as a medium for literature and a classification of concepts used in the analysis of digital narrative literature, as well as the working paths for the preservation of digital texts and their inclusion under the proposed umbrella term of “network literature.”
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This research paper delves into the transformative intersection of literature and technology, focusing on the emergence of digital narratives. In an age dominated by technological advancements, literature has undergone a paradigm shift, moving beyond traditional forms to embrace digital storytelling. The paper aims to analyze the impact of technology on narrative structures, reader engagement, and the overall landscape of literary expression. Through a comprehensive examination of digital narratives, the study seeks to uncover how technology has redefined storytelling and the implications of this evolution on the future of literature.
Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology (AJCN)
Paratextual Interferences: Patterns and Reconfigurations for Literary Narrative in the Digital Age.2016 •
To acknowledge that the beginning of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of literary narratives that make extensive use of visual or graphic elements such as photographs, typographical experimentations, unusual page layouts, drawings, illustrations, etc., is not a novelty per se. Neither is it, in recent years, to explore digital narratives and their affordances. Rather, these explorations have received much attention in narrative theory and in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Since the digital turn, new studies have approached both subjects. However, while most of these studies are either inquiries into new digital devices and digital narratives (e.g., digital narratology) or focus on experimentations with the materiality of the book (e.g., multimodal narrative), this article will consider the two issues as part of the same phenomenon. On the one hand, literary experimentations with the materiality of the book have been especially flourishing since the emergence of new digital technologies. On the other hand, contemporary fictional writers, who are becoming more and more aware of the affordances offered by digital media, have started exploiting the properties of these new technologies to supplement their print narratives. These new but recurrent practices are thus both historically grounded in the socio-cultural context of the twenty-first century and consistent with a knowledge-sharing mode embedded in web 2.0 technologies. As I will show, the correlation between (a) the materiality of the book and (b) the digital supplementary material to be found on writers’ personal websites and blogs and in social media finds its origins in Gérard Genette’s concept of paratext and, in particular, in his subdivision into (a) peritext, i.e. the paratextual elements situated in proximity of the text, and (b) epitext, i.e. the paratextual elements “not materially appended to the text within the same volume, but circulating [...] in a virtually limitless physical and social space” (Genette [1987] 1997: 344). In the first section of this article, I highlight how the concept of paratext, despite some lacks and ambivalences, is still able to offer a valuable perspective on contemporary practices. I will introduce recent investigations on issues of media, mode, and materiality in order to contextualize my study in a wider cultural and theoretical discourse. The second section analyzes how paratextual elements are employed in a contemporary novel, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010). This analysis sheds new light on the way visual and digital elements may be used in a literary narrative. Drawing on this paradigmatic case, the third section puts forth my proposal of “paratext 2.0.” Formed by the categories of material peritext and digital epitext, the conceptualization of paratexts 2.0 allows for the identification of several functions. Far from containing a definitive reconfiguration of paratext for literary narrative in the digital age, this article provides new a vocabulary and, more significantly, new insights to answer some of the urgent questions twenty-first century literary practices are posing to narrative theory.
Originally in "Between" Vol 4. No 8, 2014
“How Networked Communication has changed the ways we tell stories”In the midst of the digital revolution, this paper’s significance lies in its contribution to defining how media will change our lives and how we communicate with each other in the years to come. Narrative, as one of the most ancient communication tools, has undergone substantial structural changes. This paper addresses how these changes impact the way we read and write. Does the same story conveyed through different media channels signify in the same manner? In other words, what are the differences between a printed story and a digitally presented one? Have electronic reader devices altered the way stories are told and created? And how is networked communication changing the ways we tell stories? Empowered by technological advancements, any reader now has the ability to become an author, publishing her ideas in blogs, revising encyclopaedia entries in Wikipedia, creating her own fictional world in virtual communities. Can we talk about the existence of narrative in this new environment, or has it metamorphosed into what Henry Jenkins has defined as “transmedia storytelling”?
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