The dissertation explores the creative strategies of Russian digital literature through the analysis of its paratextual components. Digital-native literature manifests as a heterogeneous set of creative and discursive practices; within this framework, the functional and innovative use of paratext emerges as a crucial element in organizing and studying these literary phenomena, which are often fragmented and textually less prominent. The analysis highlights specific media behaviours inherent to the digital environment, which only partially align with the conventions of print literature. The disappearance of the book as a medium and the resulting decline of the word’s centrality take on particular significance within the historically literaturocentric and logocentric Russian literary tradition. Furthermore, the advent of the Internet in Russia coincided with the collapse of the Soviet era, creating a unique intersection between digital revolution and political transformation. As a result, Russian digital literature exhibits distinctive local features that are often overlooked in runet studies, which tend to focus predominantly on the sociolinguistic and political dimensions of digital consumption. Following a concise yet essential historical overview of the Russian web, the study offers an extension of Gérard Genette’s theory of paratext, adapted to encompass its digital manifestations. The research also examines a reconfiguration of creative roles in the digital textual economy, analyzing the relationships between text and paratext, as well as between user and author, introducing an unprecedented attributive model in which the user constructs the text from the author’s paratext. Based on this framework, the study identifies five main functions of digital paratext within the Russian network: narrative, contextual, didactic, performative, and integrative. Employing a rigorous inductive approach, in line with Genette’s methodology, the analysis underscores the convergence of textual practices and their corresponding paratextual functions. In conclusion, the dissertation offers a comprehensive perspective on Russian digital literature, considering both its evolution and its often non-linear trajectories, while also anticipating potential future developments in new media Russian literary practice.
La tesi ha per oggetto l’esplorazione delle strategie creative della letteratura digitale russofona, operata attraverso l’analisi delle sue componenti paratestuali. La letteratura nativa digitale si presenta come un universo di pratiche creative e discorsive eterogenee; per dare ordine ad una materia tanto caotica e spesso di scarso interesse testuale, l’uso funzionale e creativo del paratesto si colloca tra gli elementi essenziali per incasellare e studiare tali prove letterarie. Nel corso dell’analisi sono stati osservati comportamenti mediali propri dei mezzi digitali, a loro volta solo in parziale continuità con la prassi della letteratura a stampa. La scomparsa del libro e l’apparente perdita di centralità della parola sono per di più di particolare interesse se collocati nel processo letterario russo, storicamente letteraturocentrico e logocentrico. Oltretutto, l’arrivo di Internet in Russia è avvenuto contemporaneamente alla fine della parentesi sovietica, determinando una strana coincidenza tra rivoluzione digitale e rivoluzione politica. Per questi motivi, la letteratura nativa digitale russa presenta alcune peculiarità locali, troppo spesso neglette dagli studi sul runet, che si concentrano invece frequentemente su aspetti sociolinguistici e politici della fruizione digitale. Dopo aver tracciato una breve ma imprescindibile storia del web russo, si passa ad una serie di integrazioni e riconsiderazioni alla teoria del paratesto di Gérard Genette, declinata in modo da poter abbracciare le manifestazioni digitali del paratesto. È stata poi osservata la ripartizione dei ruoli creativi nell’economia testuale digitale nei binomi testo/paratesto e fruitore/autore, che si presentano qui in un assetto attributivo inedito (il testo è creato dal fruitore a partire dal paratesto dell’autore). Grazie a tali presupposti, si giunge ad una disamina delle manifestazioni del paratesto digitale della rete russa, divise in cinque funzioni principali: paratesto narrativo, paratesto contestuale, paratesto didascalico, paratesto performativo e paratesto integrativo. Profilata dopo un’attenta prassi induttiva – come insegna Genette stesso – che ha visto nelle singole opere il proprio punto di partenza, l’analisi porta all’attenzione del lettore la convergenza delle pratiche testuali nelle corrispondenti funzioni paratestuali. A seguito di tali considerazioni, in chiusura si arriva a comprendere il fenomeno della letteratura digitale russa in un’ottica ampia, che tiene conto dei suoi sviluppi ma anche dei suoi esiti non sempre lineari, tratteggiando la situazione odierna e prevedendo possibili risvolti futuri della pratica letteraria novomediale russa.
Percorsi non lineari di creazione partecipativa: il paratesto autoriale e il testo indotto nella letteratura russa in rete
GALLO, GIULIA
2025
Abstract
The dissertation explores the creative strategies of Russian digital literature through the analysis of its paratextual components. Digital-native literature manifests as a heterogeneous set of creative and discursive practices; within this framework, the functional and innovative use of paratext emerges as a crucial element in organizing and studying these literary phenomena, which are often fragmented and textually less prominent. The analysis highlights specific media behaviours inherent to the digital environment, which only partially align with the conventions of print literature. The disappearance of the book as a medium and the resulting decline of the word’s centrality take on particular significance within the historically literaturocentric and logocentric Russian literary tradition. Furthermore, the advent of the Internet in Russia coincided with the collapse of the Soviet era, creating a unique intersection between digital revolution and political transformation. As a result, Russian digital literature exhibits distinctive local features that are often overlooked in runet studies, which tend to focus predominantly on the sociolinguistic and political dimensions of digital consumption. Following a concise yet essential historical overview of the Russian web, the study offers an extension of Gérard Genette’s theory of paratext, adapted to encompass its digital manifestations. The research also examines a reconfiguration of creative roles in the digital textual economy, analyzing the relationships between text and paratext, as well as between user and author, introducing an unprecedented attributive model in which the user constructs the text from the author’s paratext. Based on this framework, the study identifies five main functions of digital paratext within the Russian network: narrative, contextual, didactic, performative, and integrative. Employing a rigorous inductive approach, in line with Genette’s methodology, the analysis underscores the convergence of textual practices and their corresponding paratextual functions. In conclusion, the dissertation offers a comprehensive perspective on Russian digital literature, considering both its evolution and its often non-linear trajectories, while also anticipating potential future developments in new media Russian literary practice.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/190573
URN:NBN:IT:UNIROMA1-190573