From Czechoslovakia with Nightmares
How the Search for “Clock Man” Illustrates the Digital Deterritorialization of World Literature Online
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22131920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Imogen Nutting (0000-0002-6516-5776, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 376-392 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2405-6472 • E-ISSN: 2405-6480 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/24056480-tat00006 |
| OpenAlex | W4385984287 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This study follows the origins of and search for “Clock Man”, from a nineteenth century Yorkshire folktale to a 2012 forum post about a lost 1976 Czechoslovakian stop motion film, and evaluates its merits as a piece of contemporary world literature. The internet has significantly altered how people communicate and share stories, allowing a range of texts to be instantly created, disseminated and discussed around the world. As the classification and study of ‘world literature’ are affected by changing standards of communication and literary merit, these new media communications can provide contemporary insight into how literature may be found in virtual public spaces. This paper blends theories of literariness, reception and new media with Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of deterritorialization to track the changes in the “Clock Man” story and observe broader trends of contemporary world literature in digital storytelling spaces
Aesthetics · Animation · Art · Deleuze and Guattari · Deterritorialization · Literariness · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · New media · Political science · Sociology · Storytelling · The Internet · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |