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- Title
Le masque mortuaire de Dante, ou un jeu de piste intermédial dans Inferno de Dan Brown.
- Authors
Fischer, Caroline
- Abstract
This article aims to show how Dan Brown's thriller Inferno incorporates elements from the Divina Commedia and reelaborates both the historical and literary figure of Dante. At the center of this investigation, largely designed as a close reading, is the intermedial dimension of the paper chase that drives the novel's plot. In a race against time to dismantle a biological weapon that threatens humanity, art history professor Robert Langdon comes across a series of complex objects and artifacts. Their complexity is both technical and semiotic, since they modify or combine existing media in a number of original ways, thus activating an intricate web of intermedia references. By analysing the intermedial structure of these objects, I propose to contribute to the description of the dense intertextual and intermedial network that structures the novel.
- Subjects
BROWN, Dan, 1964-; BIOLOGICAL weapons; ART history; CHRONOBIOLOGY; HISTORY in art; DIVINE Comedy, The (Poem : Dante); HUMANITY; LITERARY explication
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 20, p244
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/4211