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- Title
Intermediary, Multimodality and Medial Chronotopes: A Comparison between the Travel Book and the Travel Blog.
- Authors
Calzati, Stefano
- Abstract
Using Bakhtin's "chronotope", this paper advances a comparison between the travel book mondo oltre il flume dei peschi in flore by Sino-ltalian Bamboo Hirst and the travel blog Emil's Trip to China, by American Emil Kang. Firstly, it is assumed that these texts are two "intermedial transpositions" of the same genre: travel writing. Secondly, it is argued that the process of transposition affects how the genre is realised insofar as the book and the blog, as medial formats, embed different chronotopes. It is in this respect that the notion of "genium", as a conceptual field of generic and medial negotiations, is introduced. Moreover, because both texts are multimodal, the paper discusses the extension of the chronotope to photography, starting from Barthes's Camera Lucida. This provides a chronotopic study of some pictures in the texts, in terms of both what is represented and its mode of representation.
- Subjects
VOYAGES &; travels; BLOGS; TRANSMUTATION (Linguistics); KANG, Emil; CAMERA lucidas; BAKHTINIAN analysis
- Publication
Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Criticos de la Esfera Digital, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
2254-4496
- Publication type
Article