Cybertext poetics
Subtitle: the critical landscape of new media literary theory
By: by Markku Eskelinen
Series: International texts in critical media aesthetics -- v. 2
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781441124388; 9781441107459
Subjects: Digital media; Communication and technology; Literature and technology; Literature and society; Social aspects; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital literature within a more comprehensive theory capable of coming to terms with the ever-widening media varieties of literary expression, and then expands narratology far beyond its current confines resulting in multiple new possibilities for both interactive and non-interactive narratives. By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.