• Dan Brown: Morphology of a Bestsellersaurus
  • Calabrese, Stefano
  • Rossi, Roberto

Subject

  • fake
  • metalepsis
  • augmented reality
  • emplotment
  • oxymoron
  • immersivity

Description

  • Dan Brown’s success finds reasons in multiple factors, social, morphological, cognitive and commercial: the cross-medial restructuring of aesthetic communication on a global scale; the use of zero-sum homeostatic mechanisms in shaping themes, characters and meanings; the mixing of history and fiction; the disappearance of naturalistic elements; the time structuring of plots in «packs», cognitively easy to comprehend; the presence of urban settings, recognizable and meaningful for the global tourist; the elimination of ambiguous elements, favouring an aesthetic orientation to problem solving.

Date

  • 2015-07-01

Type

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Format

  • application/pdf

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