MAJ. Krzysztof M. Transmedial World-building in Fictional Narratives

Autor: Krzysztof M. Maj

Artigo publicado no número especial da revista Media Convergence and Transmedial Worlds  22, (Part 3)| 07/2015.

Resumo: "There is no denying that transmedia storytelling has been gaining increasing attention in recent media, literature, and game studies. Introduced in Henry Jenky's famous (though not aspiring to be groundbreaking) book Convergence Culture (Jenkins, 2006), the term has already appeared — to recall the most notable contributions — in media (cf. Dena 2009; Scolari 2009), game (cf. Klastrup/Tosca 2004; Thon 2009), literature (cf. WOLF 2012), television (cf. EVANS 2011) and, last but not least, narrative studies (cf. RYAN 2001; 2004; 2006; 2014), becoming, therefore, a hallmark of contemporary participatory culture. This instinctive association of transmedia studies with everything labeled new media storytelling may be, however, one of the term’s few disadvantages. After all, what was the third edition of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), if not transmedial? Indeed, the work entails a fantastic story (the imaginary voyage of Hythloday), fictional worldbuilding (the foundation of the island of Utopia), concept art (the woodcuts by Ambrosius Holbein), metafictional augmentations (fictive poems, dialogues, and letters), and even a fac-simile of the imaginary alphabet [...].

Palavras-chave: transficcionalidade, mundos possíveis.

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