Narrative as virtual reality 2 : revisiting immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media /
Ryan, Marie-Laure,1946-author.
Revised edition of: Narrative as virtual reality : immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Virtuality -- The two (and thousand) faces of the virtual -- VR technology as immersion and interactivity -- The poetics of immersion -- The text as world: theories of immersion -- Varieties of immersion: spatial, temporal, emotional -- The poetics of interactivity -- The text as world versus the text as game -- Texts without worlds: dysfunctionality as a form of play -- The many forms of interactivity -- Hypertext: the functions and effects of exploratory, external interactivity -- Reconciling immersion and interactivity -- Participatory interactivity from life situations to drama -- Chasing the dream of the immersive, interactive narrative -- Conclusion.
Books and reading.
Hypertext literature.
Electronic games.
Interactive multimedia.
Virtual reality.
Narration (Rhetoric)