#Parallels: Web Weaving, Media Fandom, and the Role of Bookishness on Tumblr and Equinox; or, the Spirit of the Age
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| Εκδόθηκε σε: | PQDT - Global (2025) |
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| Περίληψη: | #parallels: Web Weaving, Media Fandom, and the Role of Bookishness on Tumblrinvestigates the literary meme format of “Parallel Posts” or “Web Weaving” on microblogging website Tumblr. Parallel Posts are transformative collages of quotes reflecting on the same theme and drawn from different sources. They emerged from Tumblr’s intersecting fandom, queer, and bookish communities in the late-2010s, rising with the fandom-cum-subculture Dark Academia.Through analysis of the hashtag threads #parallels and #web weaving and case studies of five user accounts that make and share Parallel Posts, I argue that Parallel Posts are symptomatic of a literary culture of digital hyperconnectivity (Brubaker 2020) in which curation of media is a key technology of the self (Foucault 1988). I analyse Parallel Posts’ most recirculated authors and texts, with especial attention to the recurrent themes of queer desire, body horror, and religious devotion in the works of Anne Carson, Richard Siken, and Hozier, and in television programs Supernaturaland Hannibal. Throughout, I evidence the active, dynamic role that literature plays in Tumblr users’ lives, mirroring historical commonplace books. As a result, I argue that Parallel Posts are a vital point of insight into literary reception in the digital age, and further suggest that such phenomena emphasise the necessity of interdisciplinarity – between fan, media, and literary studies – when studying the digital literary sphere (Murray 2018). I conclude by arguing that Parallel Posts are a climactic expression of Tumblr as a site of multimodal, personal, and fannish expression.Equinox; or, the Spirit of the Ageexplores the dominant themes of Parallel Posts and the ongoing relevance of Romanticism and Gothicism to the digital literary sphere. Set in a state of environmental and political crisis, it follows the partnership between Emiko Richter, an activist and author struggling with life on- and off-line, and Charlotte Richards, an aimless ex-prodigy grasping for meaning in the sciences. It integrates experimental digital media-based writing with traditional prose, interweaving four levels of narrative: the news and media landscape, Emiko and Charlotte’s story, Emiko’s life online under the false identity “Shelley”, and her writing in that role. Self, space, time, and aesthetics collapse in Parallel Posts, and so too in the novel, which presents hyperconnectivity itself as the ground of Gothic claustrophobia. |
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| ISBN: | 9798290619842 |
| Πηγή: | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global |