Francophone literature in the digital age: Language and style

Abstract

The article is centered on the digital methods of representing a literary text. The aim of this article is to pinpoint the stylistic characteristics of new forms of narrative organization in the French-speaking sector of the Internet. The general scientific methodology of the research was formed by works on narratology (R. Barthes, M. Bakhtin, Y. Lotman) and text digitalization (S. Bouchardon), studies in the field of visual semiotics and polycode (U. Eco, J.-M. Klinkenberg, V.E. Chernyavskaya, etc.), as well as in the field of punctuation and graphic organization of visual prose (T.F. Semyan). This article analyses the stylistic features of a new model of writing by Francophone authors - online literary blogs and novels. This research contributes to the academic field of literature and digital technologies, broadening our comprehension of the stylistic aspects of new forms of narrative. The originality of the work lies in the fact that it examines the impact of the Internet on culture exclusively through the prism of literature and analyses new forms of text organization in the context of digital space. It was found that online writing not only creates new modes of expression, but also brings about changes in existing genres. Contemporary digital literature exists in the form of interactive and generative texts, visual poetry, online literary blogs and novels. The analysis showed that literary blogging promotes hybridization by intertwining genres inherited from print and digital formats. The analyzed online blogs and novels are characterized by fragmentation, non-linearity, hybridity, incompleteness, lack of a unified plot and visualization.