후기인쇄문화로서의 가상공간: 소설미학과 디지털 내러티브

Cyberspace as the Late Print Culture: Aesthetics of the Novel and Digital Narrative

Hypertext digitally enhanced the textuality of printed texts, and cyberspace is no more than a global network of hypertexts In this sense, cyberspace continues as much as discontinues the cultural logic of print culture This means we can address the digital narrative of cyberspace as the highest and late phase of print culture The newspaper and the novel, two representative forms of print culture, helped the general public to establish and maintain the cultural, national, and individual subjectivity Especially the process of reader's immersion and relief m and out of the narrative facilitated those subject formations Unlike Its apparent differences from printed book, cyberspace also presupposes the socio-cultural and material conditions which enabled print culture Accordingly, cyberspace, digital narrative, hypertext, and novel showcase the wide spectrum of print culture This continuity demands us to withdraw the simple dichotomy of print and digital culture, finally recasting the exclusive features of print culture We need to read cyberspace in terms of the late print culture as much as to reappraise the properties of print culture