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Narrative as virtual reality: immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media
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ISBN: 0801864879 0801877539 0801876818 9780801864872 Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press

Narrative across media: the languages of storytelling
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ISBN: 0803239440 0803289936 9780803239449 9780803289932 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press

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Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, 'Narrative across Media' investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, 'Narrative across Media' is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.

Possible worlds, artificial intelligence and narrative theory
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ISBN: 0253350042 9780253350046 Year: 1991 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press

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Cyberspace textuality : computer technology and literary theory
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ISBN: 0253212421 Year: 1999 Publisher: Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press


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Narrative as virtual reality 2 : revisiting immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media
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ISBN: 9781421417974 1421417979 Year: 2015 Publisher: Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press,

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When the first edition was written, the dominant form of electronic literature was hypertext fiction. The book devoted several chapters to hypertext theory, as well as to the difficulty of creating immersive hypertext narratives. Hypertextuality has lost none of its prominence as a principle of organization of the Web, but it is no longer considered avant-garde on the digital-literary scene. While the new forms that are currently being developed verify some of the recommendations made in NVR (shorter texts, greater reliance on multi-modality, self-referentiality and a tendency toward conceptual art), they generally avoid narrativity and its particular form of immersion, and even interactivity is no longer seen as indispensable. It is in the popular form of the video game that serious attempts are being made to reconcile immersion with interactivity. The second edition deals in greater detail with both the increase of narrativity in video games, and its loss in experimental digital literature. It also takes into consideration the creation of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, which implement the idea of virtual reality in a way not foreseen by VR theorists of the nineties.

Narrative across Media : the Language of Storytelling
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ISBN: 9780803289932 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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A new anatomy of storyworlds : what is, what if, as if
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ISBN: 9780814215081 9780814282274 0814215084 Year: 2022 Publisher: Columbus, Ohio The Ohio State University Press

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The question of how narratives actually do the work of world-building transcends disciplines: from cosmology to philosophy, digital culture, popular culture, and literary theory. In A New Anatomy of Storyworlds, Marie-Laure Ryan investigates the narratological importance of the concept of world in its various manifestations. She uses a wide array of works—from Sokal’s hoax to Maus, from Saussure to Barthes, from Kafka to virtual reality—to interrogate key narratological concepts. By revisiting and redefining concepts such as narrator, plot, character, fictionality, mimesis, and diegesis, Ryan reexamines the major controversies that have enlivened narratology: Does narrative necessarily involve a narrator? Is the notion of implied author useful? Do texts that challenge our experience of the real world require a different narratology? Is the distinction between fictional and factual narratives gradual or binary? Ultimately, Ryan grounds narratology in the concept of world to propose an alternative to the rhetorical, feminist, unnatural, and cognitive approaches that currently dominate the field, thus broadening the frame through which we view story and world-building.

Narrative as virtual reality: immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media
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ISBN: 9780801877537 Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore (Md) Johns Hopkins University Press

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Rituel et poésie: une lecture de Saint-John Perse
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ISBN: 3261019506 Year: 1977 Publisher: Berne

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