Important artifacts de Leanne Shapton
After failed predictions about the death of the book, the printed novel not only continues to gain advocates in the second decade of the twenty-first century, but also keeps on evolving. One of the ways of doing so is becoming multimodal (incorporating non-verbal semiotic resources) with a strong vi...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de Literaturas Modernas |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=12390 |
| Sumario: | After failed predictions about the death of the book, the printed novel not only continues to gain advocates in the second decade of the twenty-first century, but also keeps on evolving. One of the ways of doing so is becoming multimodal (incorporating non-verbal semiotic resources) with a strong visual imprint, while stylizing genres that have not been historically associated with fiction. At times, these can become structuring, that is, regulating the structure of the novel as a whole. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, by Leanne Shapton, has both features: it is highly multimodal, and it also takes the form of an unconventional structuring genre. The text appears to be an auction catalog, where the belongings of the protagonists of a love story are offered for sale, and whose affairthe reader will discover as the pages progress. The present work suggests approaching Shaptons work from a Bakhtinian perspective, exploring the motivation of the stylization of the chosen structuring genre, and how it is both functional for the narrative and appealing for21st century readers. |
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