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Reading Videos, Watching Novels: Towards a Critical Appreciation Paradigm of the Portmanteau (Frankenstein) Literature.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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The merger between technology and literature produces what the current paper proposes to term “Portmanteau Literature".  The researcher describes reasons for discarding other relevant terms, specifically “Frankenstein Literature," justifying the suitability of the proposed term to its signified. The researcher then proposes a paradigm that approaches the Portmanteau Literature from both form and content perspectives taking into consideration the variant production and consumption circumstances and conditions of such products. The new paradigm addresses the various aspects of the wide range of produced literary works with the aid of technology. These works do not only include online works. The scope includes all works that requires in its production or consumption a technologically related tool. With such a scope, the inclusion of works that were not normally included within the traditional literary academia is not only acceptable but also a necessity to avoid literature becoming a relic that can only be reached on the abandoned shelves of traditionally constructed physical libraries. As such, works like movies could be considered literature as it fulfills the main aspects of what literature is and specifically being of artistic value and ‘merit'. The researcher then puts the proposed paradigm to the use in critically approaching Pride and Prejudice: The Movie as an example of Portmanteau Literature.

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10.21608/jwadi.2022.233762

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digital literature, electronic literature, E, Frankenstein Literature, Internet of Minds, LitTech, Cyberbrain, Criticism, Critical Appreciation, technology, literature, paradigm, Tech, Lit, Internet, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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Rasha Mohamed Wagdy Mohamed

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Elleithy

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Ass. Prof. of English Language and Literature, English Department Faculty of Languages and Translation, Ahram Canadian University

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34

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34

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33545

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2022-04-01

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2022-04-27

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2022-04-01

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43

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2536-9555

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2682-4582

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مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه

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22 Jan 2023