Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Emergent Digital Practices
First Advisor
Rafael Fajardo
Second Advisor
Trace Reddell
Third Advisor
Lynn Schofield Clark
Keywords
Ace attorney, Fanfiction, Metamodernism, Narrative, Post-postmodernism, Video game
Abstract
This thesis proposes a metamodern shift in recent narrative trends, which incorporate modernist and postmodernist techniques for narrative. This includes narrative shifts which utilize postmodern devices such as irony and satire for seemingly modern ends such as hope and progress. This thesis posits that this shift can be understood through an analysis of emergent media, and considers the intertextual nature of fanfiction narratives emerging from games through a case study of Things Left Forgotten, a fanfiction written by Archive of Our Own user LookerDeWitt and based upon the two Dai Gyakuten Saiban games, spinoffs of the Ace Attorney series which are currently Japan-exclusive. This analysis seeks to identify metamodern narrative techniques, focusing on metamodern oscillation between modernism and postmodernism, the metamodern “as if” mindset, the return to earnestness through a repurposing of postmodern and modern narrative conventions, a specifically metamodern understanding of paradox, the dissolution of clearly defined boundaries stemming from an increasingly globalized world, and the uniquely reconstructive nature of metamodern narratives.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Gina Barbieri
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
186 p.
Recommended Citation
Barbieri, Gina, "The Emerging Metamodern Sensibility in Narrative: A Case Study of Things Left Forgotten and the Dai Gyakuten Saiban Games" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1719.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1719
Copyright date
2020
Discipline
Comparative literature