When the Novel Looks like a Different Genre: The Scrapbook as Structuring Genre in The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
There is an increasing number of novels that stylize discursive genres which are not historically associated with literary texts as the structure for the plot and which are crucial to make sense of the text in multiple ways, while exploiting their graphic potential ostensibly. More than just literar...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar
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I10-R337-article-190142018-09-19T08:34:22Z When the Novel Looks like a Different Genre: The Scrapbook as Structuring Genre in The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt Cuando la novela se ve como otro género: El álbum de recortes como género estructurante en The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt Mussetta, Mariana explotación gráfica en la novela novelas del siglo XXI Bajtín géneros estilizados estructurantes álbum de recortes graphic exploitation in the novel twenty-first century novels Bakhtin framing genres scrapbook There is an increasing number of novels that stylize discursive genres which are not historically associated with literary texts as the structure for the plot and which are crucial to make sense of the text in multiple ways, while exploiting their graphic potential ostensibly. More than just literary oddities, these narratives must be conceived as inscribed in a context that is witnessing the increasingly active role of experimental graphic exploitation in contemporary fiction in the 21st century, and which demands active and competent readers to approach them. Bakhtin's theory of the novel allows to shed light on them as it conceives the novel genre as a sociocultural discursive construct, a genre with memory which, by means of its resources, creates expectations and configures its readers according to cultural changes and other discursive genres. From this view, the novel is in constant transformation: a genre that feeds from social discourses to convey a world vision and to discuss the problems of its time. The present work proposes a bakhtinian reading of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: a novel in pictures (2011), by American Caroline Preston, a novel that looks like—that is, appears as—a scrapbook. Existe un número cada vez mayor de novelas que estilizan géneros discursivos históricamente no asociados con lo literario, que estructuran la trama y resultan cruciales en su aporte de sentido al texto de múltiples maneras, a la vez que explotan su potencial gráfico ostensiblemente. Más que rarezas literarias, estas narrativas deben considerarse inscritas en un contexto que cuenta con el protagonismo creciente de la explotación gráfica experimental en la ficción contemporánea en el siglo XXI y que demanda lectores activos y competentes para abordarlas. La teoría de la novela de Bajtín permite arrojar luz sobre ellas, en tanto concibe al género novelesco como un constructo discursivo sociocultural, un género con memoria que, a través de sus recursos, crea expectativas y configura receptores de acuerdo con los cambios culturales y a otros géneros discursivos, en constante transformación, que se nutre de los discursos sociales para plantear una visión determinada del mundo y discutir los problemas de su tiempo. El presente trabajo propone una lectura bajtiniana de The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: a novel in pictures (2011), de la estadounidense Caroline Preston, relato novelesco que se ve, es decir, se presenta bajo la apariencia de un álbum de recortes. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar 2017-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/19014 Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas; Vol. 7 (2017): Siglo XXI: ¿Nuevos estilos de cultura? 2591-3883 1852-4737 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/19014/18937 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/19014/19385 Derechos de autor 2017 Mariana Mussetta |
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There is an increasing number of novels that stylize discursive genres which are not historically associated with literary texts as the structure for the plot and which are crucial to make sense of the text in multiple ways, while exploiting their graphic potential ostensibly. More than just literary oddities, these narratives must be conceived as inscribed in a context that is witnessing the increasingly active role of experimental graphic exploitation in contemporary fiction in the 21st century, and which demands active and competent readers to approach them. Bakhtin's theory of the novel allows to shed light on them as it conceives the novel genre as a sociocultural discursive construct, a genre with memory which, by means of its resources, creates expectations and configures its readers according to cultural changes and other discursive genres. From this view, the novel is in constant transformation: a genre that feeds from social discourses to convey a world vision and to discuss the problems of its time. The present work proposes a bakhtinian reading of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: a novel in pictures (2011), by American Caroline Preston, a novel that looks like—that is, appears as—a scrapbook. |
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar |
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