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Networking narrative: a rhetorical analysis of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries

dc.contributor.authorPage, Lydia, author
dc.contributor.authorLangstraat, Lisa, advisor
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Debby, committee member
dc.contributor.authorMartey, Rosa Mikeal, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:40:47Z
dc.date.available2015-06-30T05:57:00Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractTransmedia storyscapes, nonlinear narratives told across many different media platforms, have emerged as important sites of non-traditional reading and writing practices. These narratives enable a type of reading and writing that is subversive to exclusionary Western rhetorics. This study applies a Bitzerian rhetorical analysis to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a successful transmedia storyscape. Bitzer's definitions of exigence, audience, and constraints are challenged when applied to a transmedia text. This thesis will explore how meaningful redefinitions of key elements within Bitzer's rhetorical situation can further an understanding of transmedia. This rhetorical analysis will highlight the ways in which Rhetoric and Composition can use transmedia narratives to make space for important matters of identity and feminist forms of writing as identified by Cixous and Rich. Transmedia storyscapes are an important, though as of yet largely unconsidered, form of digital rhetorics. This thesis seeks to establish transmedia storyscapes as a viable genre of writing that successfully embodies feminist principles through the subversion of traditional writing practices.
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dc.identifierPage_colostate_0053N_12270.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/82527
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectfeminism
dc.subjectbitzer
dc.subjectnarrative
dc.subjectrhetoric
dc.subjecttransmedia
dc.subjectmedia
dc.titleNetworking narrative: a rhetorical analysis of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
dc.typeText
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thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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