The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, reader reception and more. With new trends, tropes and conventions emerging at the speed of cyberspace, digital media like web comics, video games and fan fiction have become laboratories for experimentation on the boundaries of contemporary storytelling. While web comics, video games and fan fiction have received much scholarly study, this book focuses on the common ground they share, and how their processes, motivations and evolution may be more…mehr
The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, reader reception and more. With new trends, tropes and conventions emerging at the speed of cyberspace, digital media like web comics, video games and fan fiction have become laboratories for experimentation on the boundaries of contemporary storytelling. While web comics, video games and fan fiction have received much scholarly study, this book focuses on the common ground they share, and how their processes, motivations and evolution may be more similar than we think. These media are all regarded as unique genres of digital fiction, and this book aims to bridge the gap between them. Understanding these phenomena as expressions of the same principles could be crucial to understanding the future of narrative storytelling.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Shawn Edrei, a teacher at Tel-Aviv University, is a researcher of digital narratology, exploring how new technologies change our perspectives on storytelling and authorship. An avid gamer and observer of online fandom dynamics he has written many essays and chapters on subjects ranging from superhero fiction to contemporary detective stories to interactive transmedia.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction A New Narratology for the Digital Age Communication and the Implied Author The Fictional World and Its Inhabitants Time, Space and Plot The Desire for Agency as a Guiding Principle of Digital Fiction 1. Fan Fiction The Impetus and Methodologies of Fan Fiction Competing Authorial Powers, Conflicting Implied Authors Ontology, Metalepsis, and Storyworld Manipulation New Genres, Sub-Genres, and Metafiction Visual Mimesis and Re-Enactment in Fan Films The Meaning(s) of Fan Fiction 2. Video Game Narratology Technological Refinement Throughout the History of Video Games Manipulation, Morality, and Multitextuality Love, Death, and the Avatar Navigating Reactive Spaces in Persistent Digital Worlds Metafiction and Fan Fiction Apparatuses in Video Games The Continuing Evolution of Diegetic Agency 3. Webcomics Defining Webcomics in Opposition to Print A History of Superhero Authorship and Reactivity Unstable Atopias and Chronologically Fluid Characters Webcomics as a Digital Reaction to Superhero Fiction Embracing Subversion and Normalcy in the Infinite Canvas 4. A New Way of Framing the Pursuit of Interactivity and Agency Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction A New Narratology for the Digital Age Communication and the Implied Author The Fictional World and Its Inhabitants Time, Space and Plot The Desire for Agency as a Guiding Principle of Digital Fiction 1. Fan Fiction The Impetus and Methodologies of Fan Fiction Competing Authorial Powers, Conflicting Implied Authors Ontology, Metalepsis, and Storyworld Manipulation New Genres, Sub-Genres, and Metafiction Visual Mimesis and Re-Enactment in Fan Films The Meaning(s) of Fan Fiction 2. Video Game Narratology Technological Refinement Throughout the History of Video Games Manipulation, Morality, and Multitextuality Love, Death, and the Avatar Navigating Reactive Spaces in Persistent Digital Worlds Metafiction and Fan Fiction Apparatuses in Video Games The Continuing Evolution of Diegetic Agency 3. Webcomics Defining Webcomics in Opposition to Print A History of Superhero Authorship and Reactivity Unstable Atopias and Chronologically Fluid Characters Webcomics as a Digital Reaction to Superhero Fiction Embracing Subversion and Normalcy in the Infinite Canvas 4. A New Way of Framing the Pursuit of Interactivity and Agency Bibliography Index
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