A narrativa em Alice Madness Returns: Logosfera e Grafosfera na idade do vídeo

Abstract

According to Jameson (1996), literature maintained, ideologically, its position as the dominant aesthetic paradigm throughout the modern period going from the socio-cultural transformations of the 1960s, to compete with other symbolic systems springs from a new economic and social, late capitalism. In other words, we move from a world driven by writing to a world driven by intersemiosis image, sound, video of the word itself. The video, a mnemonic training dominant videosphere device, current mediasphere in which we operate (DEBRAY, 1993b), holds currently the position of the binder system of contemporary culture since the brand through its kinetics and intersemiosis, a new logical processes of circulation, production and consumption. Indeed, video extended, nowadays, human communication experiences, particularly the experiences in narratives, due to its numerous semiotic-compositional possibilities. Thus, despite the apocalyptic preaching theory of postmodernity that posits the crisis of the narrative, if not its death, the narrative emerges as the "common element" to all makes and midiasferas unite in contemporary babel, the logosphere experience of grafosfera and videosphere. It works as an integrating element that brings into play various processes of dialogue among media systems. It is precisely focused on this idea that this work is based. Articulating the hypothesis that the narrative has a ubiquity that turns into a major form of temporal understanding of man (RICOEUR, 1994), with the Régis Debray notion of mediasphere, we aim to show the relevance of the narrative in the video, especially in videogame, since, unlike what is postulated by postmodern precepts, we believe that the narrative found a way to renew and produce fruit without deny itself, nor deny its essential principles (FEHER, 1997). Therefore, taking as the analytical corpus Alice Madness Returns video game, developed by Electronic Arts in partnership with Spicy Horse and released in the year 2011, we propose a reflection on the narrative potential of one of the most advanced forms of video, videogame, which in the current scenario presents itself as one of the most significant representatives of a new stage of the permanence of the narrative, due to the fact orchestrates, through digital media, various codes that provide the user with quite rich sensory and emotional experiences through the inter-relationship between matrices of language and thought (Santaella, 2005). For this, we go through the following path: starting from the concept of play as an element of culture and its presence in the digital environment, through what we call the videogame, we highlight the peculiarities of this semiotic system, as well as entanglements it brings up as new through narrative language. Then articulating the idea of narrative as transcultural element (Barthes), Régis Debray notion of mediasphere, we propose that the narrative in video game highlights not only its relevance to the current context, but also acts as an integrating element able to implement midiasferas / language into one system, and it is so evidently processed in our corpus that presents an analytical process of semiosis via rich narrative element.