La catena multicolore dell’avventura infinita: romanzo e serie TV

Authors

  • Emanuela Piga Bruni Università di Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i1.5494

Abstract

While not aiming at an exhaustive definition of the relationship between the literary and the TV fields, this article proposes a reflection on the transformations of the novel through different times and media. The investigation is based on the comparison of two 19th-century novels - a popular one, Les Mystères de Paris by Eugène Sue, and a realist one, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - and two contemporary TV series which gained worldwide success - Lost, by J.J. Abrams, D. Lindelof, J. Lieber, C. Cuse; and Mad Men, AMT, by Matthew Weiner.
Through a symptomatic reading of the endings of single episodes and of the series finales, interpreted as clues to more overarching stylistic traits, the article focuses on issues related to long-lasting narrations, and on the textual forms which characterize both the traditional novel and the TV series. In spite of their being an “expanded text” and an “infinite entertainment”, the attention paid to the endings and finales of TV series by showrunners, critics and audiences alike bears witness to the centrality of such a narrative element in the composition and reception of audio-visual works.

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Author Biography

Emanuela Piga Bruni, Università di Bologna

Emanuela Piga è specializzata in Littérature générale et comparée all’Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle e ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca nel 2009 all’Università di Bologna. Attualmente è tutor didattico per i corsi di Letteratura comparata e Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi presso l’Università di Bologna, e borsista presso l’Università di Cagliari, presso la quale è stata assegnista di ricerca. Ha scritto diversi articoli su romanzo e serialità televisiva e concurato il volume monografico Tecnologia, immaginazione e forme del narrare (2014) per la rivista “Between”, di cui è corresponsabile di redazione.

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Published

2018-03-22

How to Cite

Piga Bruni, E. (2018). La catena multicolore dell’avventura infinita: romanzo e serie TV. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (1), 191–221. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i1.5494

Issue

No. 1 (2017): The sense of an ending in contemporary fiction

Section

Sezione monografica

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