Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Subtitle: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783110272390; 9783110272130
Subjects: Literary studies: general
Description: 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.
Notes: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 229135

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