Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters

This essay aims to examine the transformation of the traditional boundary between actantial roles inside fiction in literature and transmediality, to understand how this shift enables potential encounters between complex characters. This study focuses on contemporary complexity novels, where characters attempt to break free from their author-creators, as they offer a particularly compeling dynamic for investigation. It will examine this type of complex narration while also exploring the fluidity of contemporary storytelling in literature and transmediality, which introduces innovative narrative structures. Novels that reflect on the relationship between authorship and characters provide valuable insights from both a theoretical-literary and transmedia perspective, which deserve to be examined in light of the changes in the structure of contemporary narratives.

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Humanities
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2025-03-04
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https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049
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Contemporary Literature and Criticism
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Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters

Francesca Medaglia
Humanities
Contemporary Literature and Criticism
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Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters

Francesca Medaglia
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This essay aims to examine the transformation of the traditional boundary between actantial roles inside fiction in literature and transmediality, to understand how this shift enables potential encounters between complex characters. This study focuses on contemporary complexity novels, where characters attempt to break free from their author-creators, as they offer a particularly compeling dynamic for investigation. It will examine this type of complex narration while also exploring the fluidity of contemporary storytelling in literature and transmediality, which introduces innovative narrative structures. Novels that reflect on the relationship between authorship and characters provide valuable insights from both a theoretical-literary and transmedia perspective, which deserve to be examined in light of the changes in the structure of contemporary narratives.

HumanitiesVol. 14(3)
Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Openalex Percentile: Top 96%
Contemporary Literature and Criticism
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