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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   JEANETTE WINTERSON’S INTERNET HYPE: THE.POWERBOOK.

Authors:  ALINA PREDA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  At her first attempt to explore the storytelling potentialities of the Internet, Winterson rendered beautifully in The.PowerBook the shifts of identity and the altered narrative threads to be found behind the electronic screen, by knitting together the various individual stories in a network whose nodes are either the themes common to some stories, or the protagonists as different embodiments of one and the same narrator. This is Winterson’s innovative means of awakening her readers from the anaesthesia of the everyday life, from the dullness of reality, to the wonders of the fictional universe, and to the seemingly endless possibilities of virtual reality.

Key Words: shifts of identity, altered narrative, hypernovel

 
         
     
         
         
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