Meifert-Menhard Playing the Text, Performing the Future

Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-027239-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 2, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Narrating Futures

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;1 Introduction: Narrating the Future in Text;11
2;2 The Tellability of the Future;20
2.1;2.1 The Shape of Narrative – The Shape of Experience;21
2.2;2.2 The Shape of the Future;26
2.3;2.3 What If…? Thinking Beyond Actuality;35
2.4;2.4 Pre-Text and Prototype: Cybertext and Ergodics;37
2.5;2.5 Shaping and Experiencing the Storyworld: Agency and Immersion;39
3;3 Textual Future Narratives – Form and Structure;43
3.1;3.1 Narrating the ‘Not-Yet’: Issues of Mediality;44
3.1.1;3.1.1 Tempting Teleology;47
3.1.2;3.1.2 Problematical Presence;49
3.1.3;3.1.3 Imagining Optionality;51
3.2;3.2 Nodes and Bifurcation: The Essence of Future Narratives;55
3.3;3.3 Architecture, Run, Protocol: A Three-Level Narratological Model for FNs;57
3.4;3.4 The Responsiveness of the System: Activity vs. Interactivity;63
3.5;3.5 A Word on the Reader or: The Reader as Player;67
3.6;3.6 The Necessity of Possibility: Do We Have to Play?;70
3.7;3.7 A Typology of Textual Nodal Situations;72
3.8;3.8 Transitions Between Nodal Situations;74
3.8.1;3.8.1 Internal Page Transitions;74
3.8.2;3.8.2 Page-to-Page Transitions;76
3.8.3;3.8.3 Shuffling;77
3.8.4;3.8.4 Link-to-Link Transitions;78
3.8.5;3.8.5 Dynamic Input;78
3.9;3.9 The Visibility of Nodes: Indication;79
3.10;3.10 How to Choose? Information;81
3.11;3.11 Narrative Negotiation of Possibility: Mediation;85
3.12;3.12 Nodal Power;88
3.13;3.13 Nodal Structures in Textual Future Narratives;92
3.13.1;3.13.1 Directedness: The Arborescent Structure;93
3.13.2;3.13.2 Circulation: The Network Structure;95
3.13.3;3.13.3 Exploring and Returning: The Axial Structure;98
3.14;3.14 Issues of Navigation and Space;100
3.14.1;3.14.1 The Spatial Topology of Future Narratives;103
3.14.2;3.14.2 Spatiality in Textual FNs;104
4;4 A Typology of Future Narratives in Print and Digiture;108
4.1;4.1 Imaginative Explorations of the Future: Chance, Choice, and the Resistance to Closure;110
4.2;4.2 What Next? Open-Ended Narrative;112
4.3;4.3 Testing the Boundaries of the Printed Format: Multi-Linearity, Multifurcation;116
4.3.1;4.3.1 Non-linearity vs. Multi-linearity;117
4.3.2;4.3.2 Problematical Presence: Multiple Endings;119
4.3.3;4.3.3 Crucial Junctures: Forking Paths;122
4.3.4;4.3.4 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories;127
4.4;4.4 Text as Play: Games, Combinatorics, Multimodality;134
4.4.1;4.4.1 Game Novels and Combinatorics;135
4.4.2;4.4.2 The Multimodal Novel;141
4.5;4.5 Moving Into the Electronic Medium: Digital Multiplicity;144
4.5.1;4.5.1 Interactive Fiction;145
4.5.2;4.5.2 Hypertext Fiction;152
4.5.3;4.5.3 The Visual Novel;163
4.6;4.6 Approaching the Boundaries of Textuality: Narrative as Collaborative Performance;165
4.6.1;4.6.1 Pen-and-Paper Role Playing;167
4.6.2;4.6.2 Alternate Reality Gaming;170
4.6.3;4.6.3 Forecasting Games;173
4.7;4.7 Where Will We Go From Here?;174
5;5 Selected Readings of Future Narratives: From Print to Digiture;177
5.1;5.1 The Imaginative Exploration of Chance and Possibility: Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance (1990);177
5.2;5.2 Pick Your Own Path, Then and Now: An Inside Look at Choose-Your-Own-Adventure;186
5.2.1;5.2.1 Edward Packard, The Cave of Time (1979);186
5.2.2;5.2.2 Anson Montgomery, The Golden Path Volume One: Into the Hollow Earth (2008);192
5.3;5.3 The Novel as Branching Structure: Svend Åge Madsen’s Days With Diam or Life at Night (1994);197
5.4;5.4 Prose as Path: Jacques Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London (1991);207
5.5;5.5 Temporal Experiments in the Digital Web: Stuart Moulthrop’s Hegirascope (1995/1997) and Pax (2003);215
5.6;5.6 Do It Again, and Better This Time: Andrew Plotkin’s Spider and Web (1997–98);223
6;Works Cited;233
7;Index;245

Über Autor(innen)

Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas
Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.