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by SCisilino - (2013-04-15)
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Twitter and the dramatic monologue

 

 

The three texts I've read are reviews about the book "Tweet di un discorso amoroso" by Roberto Cotroneo.
The new book of R. Cotroneo is "not a book": a plot doesn't exist and the author expresses thoughts through "a kind of stream of consciousness" organized into 76 tweets.
They are short sentences that could replace the dramatic monologue used by poet between the 19th and 20th century.
With these short sentences people express their most interior feelings.
R. Cotroneo in his new book analyzes how the way to talk about own feelings is changed.
This way can be compared with the dramatic monologue of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
The differences are in the structure and principally in the length: with social network like Facebook or Twitter, people prefer to say in short sentences what modernist poets expressed in a lot of stanzas and whose lines were the result of a study.
Also the use of quotations is changed: modernist poets' use of quotations reveals the comprehension of the traditional literature but now quotations are used to express simple emotions and people probably don't understand what the quotation means.
Another difference is the source of quotations: in the dramatic monologue quotations were taken from philosophers and important writers instead now, quotations are taken from songs, movies and contemporary famous people.
As tweet as the interior monologue reveal the intention to express own interior emotions and feelings but now they are expressed in a non-durable form, so they are forgotten in the web very early.