Dan Brown: Morphology of a Bestsellersaurus

• Main Authors: Stefano Calabrese, Roberto Rossi
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2015-07-01
• Series: Enthymema
• Subjects: fake; metalepsis; augmented reality; emplotment; oxymoron; immersivity
• Online Access: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/4955

Dan Brown’s success finds reasons in multiple factors, social, morphological, cognitive and commercial: the cross-medial restructuring of aesthetic communication on a global scale; the use of zero-sum homeostatic mechanisms in shaping themes, characters and meanings; the mixing of history and fiction; the disappearance of naturalistic elements; the time structuring of plots in «packs», cognitively easy to comprehend; the presence of urban settings, recognizable and meaningful for the global tourist; the elimination of ambiguous elements, favouring an aesthetic orientation to problem solving.