Dayane Argentino Dias, Raquel Sangy da Costa Guimarães, 2023-04-05
The growth of the internet and its accessibility has brought about changes in communication, information, entertainment, and reading.This has led to the emergence of various forms of virtual, digital, or online literature, which has resulted in reflective-theoretical discussions on its definition and characteristics.It is also noted the growth of the studies that attempt to take care of the many different phenomena that recreate, modify, transpose, and disseminate the literature on screens.To validate or make exclusive things that can be found in cyberspace, the Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), which are a type of digital certificates established through blockchain technology, defines or delimits the originality and exclusivity of digital assets.Blockchain is a book accounting that records virtual currency transactions and ensures transparency and decentralization.Thus, an NFT can be linked to any digital item such as images, videos, music, messages, or social media posts, making this item unique to the world and generating collectors and investors interested in directing money toward the acquisition of works and digital assets.From this, this research seeks to present discussions about what is literature in NFT with the objective, even if initially, of pointing out how it modifies or impacts certain notions and categories of printed literature, such as authorship, literary
It is well known that the novel The History of the Siege of Lisbon undertakes a revision of the origin of Portuguese identity by revealing the fragile historical fundament in the sense of a culture’s hybridity. This study argues that in this story the problematic search for ‘pure’ historical origin is intertwined with the search for ‘pure’ text. By analyzing the dense intertextual net of Raimundo Silva’s doubtful and creative proof-reading it becomes evident that it is less a question of proof-reading than of translating that is at stake in this historiographic metafiction. From this perspective the adventure of reading/writing turns out to be a question of criss-crossed identity that is extended to the novel’s reader: in the case of its translation into German, the new text has to tackle with the reader’s cultural affinity with the Crusaders.