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Article

Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters

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Francesca Medaglia
Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Humanities 2025, 14(3), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049
Submission received: 16 December 2024 / Revised: 28 February 2025 / Accepted: 28 February 2025 / Published: 4 March 2025

Abstract

This essay aims to examine the transformation of the traditional boundary between actantial roles inside fiction in literature and transmediality, to understand how this shift enables potential encounters between complex characters. This study focuses on contemporary complexity novels, where characters attempt to break free from their author-creators, as they offer a particularly compeling dynamic for investigation. It will examine this type of complex narration while also exploring the fluidity of contemporary storytelling in literature and transmediality, which introduces innovative narrative structures. Novels that reflect on the relationship between authorship and characters provide valuable insights from both a theoretical-literary and transmedia perspective, which deserve to be examined in light of the changes in the structure of contemporary narratives.
Keywords: character; author; narratology; complexity; fiction character; author; narratology; complexity; fiction

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Medaglia, F. Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters. Humanities 2025, 14, 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049

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Medaglia F. Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters. Humanities. 2025; 14(3):49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049

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Medaglia, Francesca. 2025. "Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters" Humanities 14, no. 3: 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049

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Medaglia, F. (2025). Alterations of the Fictional Line: Possible Encounters Between Authors and Complex Characters. Humanities, 14(3), 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030049

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