
Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
Felicitas Meifert-Menhard(Author)
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2013
Book
Hardback
IX, 237 pages
978-3-11-027213-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
15 Abbildungen
15 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-027213-0 (9783110272130)
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Felicitas Meifert-Menhard
Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Person
Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.