Literatura digital – novos percursos: do conto ao hiperconto

Abstract

The present work aims to study how text genres, particularly in the genre tale, have incorporated into their structure the new technologies of information and communication in cyberspace, because of the use of hypermedia elements that will form the digital storytelling. The study investigated the interactivity, the formation of the digital storytelling as well as the production of meaning with elements of hypermedia in the context of multimodal tales, having as foundation the analysis of the tale “A Noise in the Basement”. The analysis of said multimodal tale proved that the choices of both verbal and visual components integrate and complement each other with the end result being the production of the multimodal text, while keeping in its structure compositional elements of the traditional narrative. The interactivity has been directly associated with elements of multimodal texts, particularly in relation to digital hypertexts, by way of the formation of the link, allowing that the reader choose the route that would best convenience meaning construction. The links acted as important agents of the digital narrative, not only inducing clicks, but performing the role of conector, configuring elements that orientates the route of reading.