Narrating Futures / Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
Seiten
2013
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-027213-0 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-027213-0 (ISBN)
This series explores a hitherto unidentified type of narrative: Future Narratives. Future Narratives preserve essential aspects of future time, namely its openness and undecidedness. They do this by operating with ‘nodes’ as their basic unit – situations that allow for more than one continuation. Future Narratives can be found in print, in film, in video games, in scenarios of world climate change, and in other simulations of future trends. Cutting across all media and genre classifications, this burgeoning corpus still lacks a theory and a poetics. This series offers both – and detailed case studies.
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.
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.
Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.8.2013 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Narrating Futures ; Volume 2 |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 b/w ill. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 489 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | digital • Future • Narratologie • Performance • Play • Play; Text; Performance; Future; Digital • Play;Text;Performance;Future;Digital • Text |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-027213-X / 311027213X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-027213-0 / 9783110272130 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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