In a hybrid of facts, fiction, geography, Douglas Coupland’s speculative narratives offer an insight of socio-historical and stylistic trends within recognisable age groups. Danielewski and Jennifer Egan - this paper looks at the codex form as one medium among others, and as a diagrammatic, phenomenal and performative space (see Drucker 2007) rather than a representative/figurative space, and as an ur-coding practice now existing among newer ones. Have the Internet, the new media and digital devices altered the way authors conceive, design and weave together their narratives in books? How is the interaction or mutual relation between various old and new media (art, cartoons, cinema, and TV included) achieved within the codex book? Do authors expunge or expose the phenomenon of media merging and interaction? By analysing works by five writers - British, Canadian and American - Matt Beaumont and Jeanette Winterson, Douglas Coupland, Mark Z. The focus of this paper is on the novel in book form and on the influence and impact of the new media and their technologies, both as hardware and software, including the Internet and varied web content - web pages, online magazines, blogs, chat rooms, forums, social networks and media - as well as mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and therefore text messaging (SMS) and instant messenger services.
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