Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814214565)

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of unnatural narratology as a medium-specific and transmedial phenomenon. It applies and adapts key concepts of narrative theory and analysis to digital-born fictions ranging from hypertext and interactive fiction to 3D-narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. The book addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction by focusing on multilinearity and narrative contradiction, interactional metalepsis, impossible time and space, "extreme" digital narration, and medium-specific forms of textual "you." In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands unnatural, cognitive, and transmedial narratology by placing the form of these new narratives front and center.

Author: Astrid Ensslin
ISBN-10: 0814214568
ISBN-13: 9780814214565
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2022