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- Title
Deterritorializing the Textual Site in the Digital Age: Paratextual and Narrative Democracy in Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions.
- Authors
Piatkowski, Paul
- Abstract
Narrative texts are traditionally read through the main textual body, yet modernist and postmodern texts have inventively refurbished textual parts and formed a more democratic narrative. Through recentering these paratextual components of the traditional text, this democratization resets the readerly process. The 2015 iBook edition of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions advances this paratexual democratization through its exploration of the digital platform's available tools. For example, hyperlinking and background music provide a multi-tiered readerly experience in this revised edition of his 2006 book. Despite the immense opportunities involved in this medium, there are pitfalls to the unanchoring of the text found in the digital platform. A democracy of the text comes with its own set of problems. Mark Z. Danielewski's iBook edition of Only Revolutions , however, affords the reader a view of the transformative opportunities embedded in a digitally democratic text and the new possibilities of an exciting medium.
- Subjects
IBOOK (Computer); DIGITAL technology; DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.; NARRATIVES; DEMOCRATIZATION
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.10