How the network influences the narrative: meta-narrative motifs in contemporary romance novels
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https://doi.org/10.24197/sxxi.0.2018.69-86Keywords:
metanarrative motifs, contemporary epistolary novel, internet, transmitted speech, narrative structureAbstract
The article analyzes five contemporary epistolary romance novels; in each one of them transmitted speech forms a significant part, especially written messages that the characters direct to each other through the internet. The use of the network as the main channel of communication has important consequences: a (passing) tendency to include extensive metatextual references related to technical aspects (phenomenon already in retreat), the presence of anachronisms and the question of truth and false identity as one of the substantial thematic axes that is reflected in the structure through the motif of the found manuscript, and, finally, changes in the structure and form of the genre of the epistolary novel.
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