Paratexts 2.0: new perspectives on twenty-first century literary narrative

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dc.contributor.advisor Masiero, Pia
dc.contributor.author Pignagnoli, Virginia <1984> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-28T13:30:32Z
dc.date.available 2014-03-28T13:30:32Z
dc.date.issued 2014-03-11
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3974
dc.description.abstract In this study, I argue for the need to extend Genette’s typology of the paratext to analyze twenty-first century literary narratives. “Paratexts 2.0” are formalized in a model that presents the new categories of material peritexts and digital epitexts and their main functions. The new model provides a heuristic for contemporary narratives whose authors exploit various semiotic modes in their printed books, and the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies in the digital world. My dissertation is therefore also an attempt to complement the rhetorical approach to narrative with investigations on mediality and modality, and a discussion on the extra-textual dimension of authorial agency. Finally, according to a diachronic perspective, this study explores the ethical values embedded in the choice of using paratexts 2.0 as resources of narrative communication in relation to post-postmodern American literature. it_IT
dc.description.abstract In questo lavoro, si tenta di dimostrare la necessità di estendere la categorizzazione di paratesto di Genette per analizzare narrazioni letterarie del ventunesimo secolo. I “paratesti 2.0” vengono formalizzati in un modello che presenta due nuove categorie, quella dei peritesti materiali e quella degli epitesti digitali, con le rispettive funzioni principali. Il nuovo modello si propone di offrire una chiave di lettura per narrazioni contemporanee i cui autori fanno uso di diversi modi semiotici nel libro stampato e sfruttano le proprietà del Web 2.0 nel mondo digitale. La mia dissertazione è pertanto un tentativo di completare l'approccio retorico alla narrazione attraverso studi su medialità e modalità, e con una discussione circa la dimensione extra-testuale dell'autore. Infine, da una prospettiva diacronica, questo studio esamina i valori etici determinati dalla scelta di usare i paratesti 2.0 come una risorsa narrativa in relazione alla letteratura americana post-postmoderna. it_IT
dc.language.iso eng it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it
dc.rights © Virginia Pignagnoli, 2014 it_IT
dc.subject Paratexts it_IT
dc.subject Authorship it_IT
dc.subject Rhetorical Approach it_IT
dc.subject Post-postmodernism it_IT
dc.subject American literature - 21. century it_IT
dc.subject Narrative theory it_IT
dc.title Paratexts 2.0: new perspectives on twenty-first century literary narrative it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis en
dc.degree.name Lingue, culture e societa' it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it
dc.degree.grantor Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2014 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 26 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Villari, Enrica
dc.location.shelfmark D001308 it
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955782 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber 187 p. : ill. it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/11 LINGUE E LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent Acknowledgments 5 List of Figures 11 1. Introduction 15 2. Framing the Frame 22 2.1 Rhetorical Approach to Narrative 22 2.1.1 Paratexts 2.0 and the Six Principles of the Rhetorical Approach 23 2.1.2 Narrative Communication 30 2.1.3 Authorship, Ethos, and Audience 33 2.2 Paratext: From Seuils to Paratexts 2.0 37 2.2.1 Genette’s Paratext: Formulation and Establishment 37 2.2.2 Discussion and Reconceptualization 40 2.3 Narrative and Media 44 2.3.1 Frames, Framings, Framing Borders 46 2.3.2 Media, Transmedial, Intermedial, and Multimodal 49 2.3.3 Conclusions 56 3. Paratexts 2.0: A Typology 58 3.1 Paratexts 2.0, An Introduction 58 3.1.1 2.0: A Diachronic Perspective 61 3.2 Categories and Functions: Toward a Model for Paratexts 2.0 in Literary Narrative 65 3.3 Paratextual Dynamics 2.0 77 3.3.1 Resource Value and Function Fulfillment 77 3.3.2 Reconfigurations 79 4. Reading and Writing Paratexts 2.0: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes 81 4.1 Introduction 81 4.2 Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad 84 4.2.1 Introducing the Narrative 84 4.2.2 Material Peritexts: A Visit From the Goon Squad’s Slide-Journal 90 4.2.3 “To See What Might Happen.” The Many Digital Epitexts of Goon Squad 99 4.3 Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes 107 4.3.1 Introducing the Narrative 107 4.3.2 Material Peritexts: Tree of Codes’s Die-Cut Pages 114 4.3.3 “A Question of Balance.” The Resisting Digital Epitexts of Tree of Codes 120 4.4 Resource Reliance and Function Fulfillment: Comparing Results, Comparing Value 125 5. What’s New? Connections and Developments 130 5.1 New Perspectives on Twenty-first Century Literary Narrative 130 5.1.1 Post-postmodernism 132 5.2 Authorship 2.0 134 5.2.1 The Double-sharing Logic 138 5.3 The Narrative Communication Model 140 5.4 Readership 2.0 142 5.4.1 A Discursive Foray into the Digital Revolution 145 5.5 Extending the Model to Nonfictional Narrative: David Shields’ Reading (Play)list 150 Conclusions and Further Directions 163 Works Cited 168 Abstract 186 Estratto 187 it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Pignagnoli, Virginia. "Paratexts 2.0: new perspectives on twenty-first century literary narrative." Dissertation. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. it_IT


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