Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 16, 1 (2024) 116–135
Abstract. The paper analyses two pieces of multimodal storytelling that represent the genre recently labelled as artistic document (Lupínková 2022, Jirků 2022). The narratives feature sensitive topics such as eating disorders, coming of age, and accepting oneself and the other. These publications also reflect the trend of independent publishing houses to produce slow-read book-artefacts. For this reason, the enquiry draws on the methods of intermedial studies and correlates the observed phenomena with the changing understanding of literariness employing the concept of postautonomous literature, and with the transformation of cultural communication in general. The analysis focuses on the relation of factual and fictional strategies of the texts and on the interplay of the verbal and visual components, as well as the potential impact of the particular material qualities of these books on the process of reception.
Keywords: intermediality, postautonomous literature, illustration, multimodal storytelling, affectivity, eating disorders.
SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA
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