Journey e as potencialidades narrativas dos videojogos

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo , Deyseane Pereira dos Santos
• Orientador(a): Justino, Luciano Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura e Interculturalidade - PPGLI
• Departamento: Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa - PRPGP
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Narrativa; Estudo intermidiático; Videojogo; Semiótica; Materialidade
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.uepb.edu.br/handle/123456789/73407

This thesis is based on the intermedia studies perspective and aims to further deepen the debate about narrative theory in contemporaneity, using as research corpus the videogame Journey, launched on March 13th 2012 at Playstation Network by Thatgamecompany (TGC). In a broad aspect, this work seeks to question the postmodern discourse that postulates the narrative crisis, if not its death, based on the analysis of narrative rhizomatic processes (DELEUZE & GUATARRI, 1996, p. 37) for other systems, especially the videogame system, considering, for such, the materiality problematic (GUMBRECHT, 2010) in the translation process of a fable that, incarnated in the medium, becomes the syuzhet (GAUDREAULT; MARION, 2012, p.117). Using as theoretical support the notions of Mediasphere by Régis Debray (1993a, 1993b, 1995), of Semiosphere by Irene Machado (2007), and of Polysystem by Even-Zohar (2007), we tried to investigate, firstly, from the materiality perspective built in our work, the mediation, contact, and contamination processes established between Journey and other systems, mainly the relationship between this object and the literature system showcased through the presence of a certain “literary discursiveness” (MANGUENEAU, 2009) in the narrative composition. This perspective testifies, as we believe, not only the theoretical fallacy proposed by post-modern ideas about the narrative death, as well as helps us, in a strict sense, to notice the narrative complexities on this intersemiotic system. As we have showed in a second moment, the languages’ diversity present in the composition, as well as the many Journey intermedia relationships in the semiosphere, puts us in front of a “new” narrative statute that is set up on an oralizing semiotic way of engendering (JUSTINO, 2013), a form that is evidenced in its interior through the interactive performativity powered by the system and the presence of a-significant semiotics in the narrative construction process. In this way, we consider, thus, the videogame Journey as a narrative polysystem of the Videosphere time (DEBRAY, 1993a) that feeds from the distant mythic and performative of the Logosphere (DEBRAY, 1993a), its oralizing semiotics, and the “very” close, the book logic, the Graphosphere (DEBRAY, 1993a), through the “literary discursiveness” present in the narrative composition.