Playing the text, performing the future : future narratives in print and digiture / / Felicitas Meifert-Menhard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910341841903321
• Autore: Meifert-Menhard Felicitas <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 3-11-027239-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Collana: Narrating futures ; ; 2
• Classificazione: EC 4610
• Disciplina: 808.3
• Soggetti: Authorship - Computer network resources; Fiction - Technique; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Narrating the Future in Text -- 2. The Tellability of the Future -- 3. Textual Future Narratives - Form and Structure -- 4. A Typology of Future Narratives in Print and Digiture -- 5. Selected Readings of Future Narratives: From Print to Digiture -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.