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Playing the text, performing the future : future narratives in print and digiture / Felicitas Meifert-Menhard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas, 1978-
- Series:
- Narrating futures ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship--Computer network resources.
- Authorship.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Narrating the Future in Text
- 2. The Tellability of the Future
- 3. Textual Future Narratives - Form and Structure
- 4. A Typology of Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
- 5. Selected Readings of Future Narratives: From Print to Digiture
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 24, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9783110272390
- 3110272393
- OCLC:
- 862937685
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