Neverending Stories
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6494-5 (ISBN)
Digital fiction has long been perceived as an experimental niche of electronic literature. Yet born-digital narratives thrive in mainstream culture, as communities of practice create and share digital fiction, filling in the gaps between the media they are given and the stories they seek.
Neverending Stories explores the influences of literature and computing on digital fiction and how the practices and cultures of each have impacted who makes and plays digital fiction. Popular creativity emerges from subordinated groups often excluded from producing cultural resources, accepting the materials of capitalism and inverting them for their own carnivalesque uses. Popular digital fiction goes by many different names: webnovels, adventure games, visual novels, Twitter fiction, webcomics, Twine games, walking sims, alternate reality games, virtual reality films, interactive movies, enhanced books, transmedia universes, and many more.
The book establishes digital fiction in a foundation of innovation, tracing its emergence in various guises around the world. It examines Infocom, whose commercial success with interactive fiction crumbled, in no small part, because of its failure to consider women as creators or consumers. It takes note of the brief flourish of commercial book apps and literary games. It connects practices of cognitive and conceptual interactivity, and textual multiplicity—dating to the origins of the print novel—to the feminine. It pushes into the technological future of narrative in immersive and mixed realities. It posits the transmedia franchises and the practices of fanfiction as examples of digital fiction that will continue indefinitely, regardless of academic notice or approval.
R. Lyle Skains conducts practice-based research into creating and publishing interactive digital narratives, manages Wonderbox Digital, and organizes the annual New Media Writing Prize, UK.
Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
PART I: DIGITAL FICTION CONTEXTS
2. Innovation Origins
3. Digital Fiction Emergence
4. Digital Creativity: Democracy and Capitalism
PART II: DIGITAL FICTION IN POPULAR CULTURE
5. Evolution from Mainstream to Niche: The Case of Interactive Fiction
6. It’s Not a Book, It’s Not a Game: Literary Games
7. Everything Old is New Again: Ergodic Literature
8. Hunting the Holodeck: Interactive, Alternative, and Immersive Realities
9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Archontic Narratives
10. Conclusion
Mediography
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 26 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-6494-4 / 1501364944 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-6494-5 / 9781501364945 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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