Narrative Prototypes and Fandoms in Mashup Storyworlds: Comparing the Novel and the Film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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This article examines Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a literary mashup that stands at the intersection of two engaging fandoms, each constructed around a popular storyworld. It asks how narrative prototypes, the typical exemplars within genres, shape such a mashup storyworld across media. Considering Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and zombie-based apocalyptic narratives as prototypes, this study compares the PPZ novel (2009) and its film adaptation (2016), examining their prototype affiliation. Based on the categorization of Marie-Laure Ryan's narrativity model, it investigates their spatial, temporal, mental, and formal dimensions separately. The comparative analysis demonstrates that the PPZ novel gravitates toward Austen’s domestic and gender-centered prototypical core, while the cinematic adaptation aligns more closely with the conventions of zombie cinema and its apocalyptic logic. To account for this divergence, the article traces the historical formation of both prototypes and their associated fandoms, arguing that each adaptation privileges the prototype embedded in its respective medium. By linking narrative form to medium specificity and fandom formation, the study offers a framework for understanding how mashup storyworlds are shaped by competing narrative traditions.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Narrative Prototypes and Fandoms in Mashup Storyworlds: Comparing the Novel and the Film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

نویسندگان [English]

  • Masoome Sehat
  • Alireza Anushiravani
  • Laleh Atashi
Department of English Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
چکیده [English]

This article examines Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a literary mashup that stands at the intersection of two engaging fandoms, each constructed around a popular storyworld. It asks how narrative prototypes, the typical exemplars within genres, shape such a mashup storyworld across media. Considering Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and zombie-based apocalyptic narratives as prototypes, this study compares the PPZ novel (2009) and its film adaptation (2016), examining their prototype affiliation. Based on the categorization of Marie-Laure Ryan's narrativity model, it investigates their spatial, temporal, mental, and formal dimensions separately. The comparative analysis demonstrates that the PPZ novel gravitates toward Austen’s domestic and gender-centered prototypical core, while the cinematic adaptation aligns more closely with the conventions of zombie cinema and its apocalyptic logic. To account for this divergence, the article traces the historical formation of both prototypes and their associated fandoms, arguing that each adaptation privileges the prototype embedded in its respective medium. By linking narrative form to medium specificity and fandom formation, the study offers a framework for understanding how mashup storyworlds are shaped by competing narrative traditions.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Prototype Theory
  • Mashup Storyworld
  • Fandom
  • Jane Austen
  • Zombies

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