The end of books--or books without end?
Subtitle: reading interactive narratives
By: J. Yellowlees Douglas.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Fiction -- Technique -- Data processing.; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Experimental fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Authors and readers -- Data processing.; Creative writing -- Data processing.; Postmodernism (Literature); Literature and technology.; Narration (Rhetoric); Closure (Rhetoric); Hypertext systems.; Computer games.; Literary form.
Other titles: End of books
Description: "J. Yellowlees Douglas looks at the new light that interactive narratives may shed on theories of reading and interpretation and the possibilities for hypertext novels, World Wide Web-based short stories, and cinematic, interactive narratives on CD-ROM. She confronts questions that are at the center of the current debate: Does an interactive story demand too much from readers? Does the concept of readerly choice destroy the author's vision? Does interactivity turn reading fiction from "play" into "work"--Too much work? Will hypertext fiction overtake the novel as a form of art or entertainment? And what might future interactive books look like?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.