Cybertext Poetics
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Cybertext Poetics

The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory

  1. 472 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cybertext Poetics

The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 2 Cybertext theory revisited
  4. 3 Cybertextuality and transtextuality
  5. 4 The textual whole
  6. 5 The enigma of the ergodic
  7. 6 Towards cybertextual narratology
  8. 7 Towards an expanded narratology
  9. 8 Tense
  10. 9 Mood
  11. 10 Voice
  12. 11 Ergodic and narrative discourses
  13. 12 Ludology and the exhaustion of narratology
  14. 13 Game ecology and the classic game model
  15. 14 Game ontology
  16. 15 Rules and configurative practices
  17. 16 Game time
  18. 17 Games as configurative practices: models and metaphors
  19. 18 Transmedial modes and ecologies
  20. 19 Ergodic modes and play
  21. 20 Textual instruments and instrumental texts
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index