Intertextuality and Extension: Transmedia Storytelling in Orhan Pamuk's “Museum Series”

Abstract

Abstract: Orhan Pamuk created a “Museum Series” composed of four pieces of creative work, including the novel, The Innocence of Museum, the museum itself, the catalogue, The Innocence of Objects, and the movie, The Innocence of Memories. In this series, Pamuk first takes advantage of the traditional novel's narrative mode to tell a unique story that integrates love and objects and sets such an integration up as its story core. The other three parts, which appeared subsequently, extended the storytelling about objects and city respectively, using various media, such as objects, pictures, words, and cinematography, based on the exploration of intertextuality and the core of the story. By means of intertextuality and extension, Pamuk eventually constructed a transmedia storyworld in the “Museum Series.” Such a new and original experiment accentuates the diverseness and richness in Pamuk's literary writing on the one hand and, on the other, provides us with new exemplary texts for the studies in transmedia storytelling.

Key words: Pamuk, “Museum Series”, transmedia storytelling, intertextuality, extension

Zhu Chunfa. Intertextuality and Extension: Transmedia Storytelling in Orhan Pamuk's “Museum Series”[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2021, 43(5): 117-126.

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