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Reading network fiction
- Title
- Reading network fiction / David Ciccoricco.
- Author
- Ciccoricco, David, 1973-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- 244 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "David Ciccoricco establishes the category of "network fiction" as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives. Though they both predate and post-date the World Wide Web, they share with it an aesthetic drive that exploits the networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds notions of narrative recurrence and return." "Ciccoricco analyzes innovative developments in network fiction from first-generation writers Michael Joyce (Twilight, a symphony, 1997) and Stuart Moulthrop (Victory Garden, 1991) through Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter (2000), an acclaimed example of digital literature in its latter instantiations on the Web. Each investigation demonstrates not only what the digital environment might mean for narrative theory but also tile ability of network fictions to sustain a mode of reading that might, arguably, be called "literary""--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Time and Time Again of Network Fiction -- 2. Network Vistas: Folding the Cognitive Map -- 3. Returning in Twilight: Joyce's Twilight, a Symphony -- 4. Tending the Garden Plot: Moulthrop's Victory Garden -- 5. Fluid or Overflowing: The Unknown and *water writes always in *plural -- 6. Mythology Proceeding: Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter.
- ISBN
- 9780817315894 (alk. paper)
- 0817315896 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007014107
- 40015053051
- OCLC
- 123390919
- ocn123390919
- SCSB-5388470
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries