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Title

Cybertext poetics : the critical landscape of new media literary theory / by Markku Eskelinen.

Author

Eskelinen, Markku.

Publication

New York : Continuum, c2012.

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Description

vi, 462 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

International texts in critical media aesthetics ; v. 2

Uniform Title

International texts in critical media aesthetics ; v. 2.

Subject

• Communication and technology
• Digital media > Social aspects
• Internetliteratur
• Literature and society
• Literature and technology
• Literaturtheorie
• Narration (Rhetoric)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-454) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781441124388 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1441124381 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781441107459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1441107452 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011038964

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library