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Digital cartoons : collaborative activism in Hong Kong
No full textThis chapter analyses some new ways of digital cartoon production that have been adopted in social movements in Hong Kong over the past few years. Two tendencies can be seen in the production of such cartoons: the first one is there are more citizen cartoonists who incline to remain anonymous, probably due to the fear of repercussions. The second tendency is independent cartoonists’ affinity to produce cartoons in dialogue with other cartoonists’ works. I will focus on a case study of digital cartoons produced loosely collaboratively under the interactive conditions offered by social media. These digital cartoons can be read both independently and together with other cartoons that are intertextually or dialogically linked
Building Familiarity in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar: Multimodal Storytelling, Seriality, and Social Reading
No full textFictionality and the multimodal positioning of the reader in Christian Jungersen's You Disappear
No full textThe narrative of Christian Jungersen’s novel, You Disappear (2014; Du Forsvinder 2012), revolves around existential questions about the complexity of human identity and reality. When Mia’s husband, Frederik, is afflicted with a brain tumour, his personality changes radically. As it turns out, his personality may have been affected by the growing tumour for the past three years – a happy period in what was previously an unhappy marriage but also a time when Frederik unscrupulously committed fraud at work – and Mia finds herself questioning which Frederik is the real Frederik. This central question of what is real is enhanced by the novel’s multimodality: by including pictures and photographically reproduced letters, emails, newspaper articles, legal documents and scientific reports about neurology it blurs the ontological borders between fiction and reality. Building on previous work on fictionality in (social semiotic) multimodal stylistics (Nørgaard 2010, 2019, forthcoming), this chapter demonstrates how the mimetic illusion of Jungersen’s fictional narrative is simultaneously intensified and broken by multimodal means. Particular attention is devoted to the interpersonal positioning (cf. Kress and van Leeuwen 2006) of the reader by the photographic materials. Where Gibbons (2012) has shown from a multimodal cognitive poetic perspective how the use of multimodal material in the novel can have the effect of aligning the reader doubly deictically with a character, this chapter examines how this positioning of the reader is realised at a grammatical level in Jungersen’s novel by specific choices made in the photographic materials. My analysis thus explores how choices from the visual grammatical systems of perspective, distance and modality (cf. Kress and van Leeuwen 2006) enhance the mimetic illusion of the reader not only seeing what a character sees (a real estate brochure, a handwritten letter, etc.) but of being positioned with the character while looking at those items.<br/
Bending voices, opening ears : voice, music, sound, and affect in digital literature
No full textThis chapter focuses on the way voice transmits musical, sonic and linguistic effects to convey meaning in digital literature. It also argues that one of literature’s missions is to express the inexpressible and that sound (using the voice as a vehicle) is a particularly good way to do this, because it is a strong agent of affect. Analysing the works of several digital media artists and electronic literature writers, this chapter demonstrates the range of voice in digital literature from singing to speaking, both acoustic and electronic. Voice tends to be viewed as natural, acoustic, human, individual, expressive and transparent but is fundamentally the opposite: plural, unstable, opaque, multi-layered and mediated. This is highlighted in electronic literature where voice is often technologically manipulated through synthesis, multiplication, sampling and processing
Do-It-Yourself Multimodality : Fictionality and the (Ab)uses of the Book Medium in Keri Smith's Wreck This Journal
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Tale of two Wests: gender, postmodernism, & Sam Shepard s reimagined American frontier in Buried Child, True West, & Fool for Love
No full textThis study interprets Sam Shepard's plays Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love as both evocative and critical of the spirit of Americanness captured by Western history and the western genre. Westward expansion and the ideology of Manifest Destiny encouraged an aggressive and domineering type of masculinity called Martial Manhood. The men in Shepard's re-imagined western landscape compulsorily resort to senseless violence to the point of self-destruction. The nexus between the myth of the West and male perpetrated violence is highlighted, critiquing the conquest of the frontier and, further, critiquing the conflation of national and personal identity. At the same time, Shepard's women have an understated presence in the plays' narratives, emulating women in the West who Western historians have often omitted from historical narratives. Counterintuitively, however, the women being sidelined in the plays is to their benefit and Shepard suggests they possess a distinct type of savvy, a form of feminine resistance, that allows them to avoid the seemingly doomed fates that the men are subject to. Finally, using conventions of the Western and postmodern genres, Shepard questions the reliability of metanarratives and undermines the notion of authenticity, suggesting that identity is transient and manufactured, rather than based on an invariable truth. In doing so, Shepard deconstructs the myth of the frontier and destabilizes the American tradition of rugged individualism and masculine violence
On the Significance of Digital Epitexts. Virginia Pignagnoli Examines how Digital Epitexts Shape Post-Postmodernist Narrative Poetics
Full text linkRezension zu: Virginia Pignagnoli: Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2023 (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series) 158 pp. USD 79.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1542-
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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