Alice Bell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.Astrid Ensslin is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Bangor University, UK.Hans Rustad is Associate Professor in Literature and New Media Communication at Hedmark University College, Norway.

• 1.Introduction: From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin and Hans Kristian Rustad Section 1: Narratological Approaches 2. Media-Specific Metalepsis in 10:01 Alice Bell 3.Digital Fiction and Worlds of Perspective David Ciccoricco 4. Seeing into the Worlds of Digital Fiction Daniel Punday Section 2: Social Media and Ludological Approaches 5. Playing with rather than by the Rules: Metaludicity, Allusive Fallacy and Illusory Agency in The Path. Astrid Ensslin 6. 140 Characters in Search of a Story: Twitterfiction as an Emerging Narrative Form Bronwen Thomas 7. Amnesia, the Dark Descent: The Player's Very Own Purgatory Susana Tosca 8. Wreading Together: The Double Plot of Collaborative Digital Fiction Isabell Klaiber Section 3: Semiotic-Rhetorical Approaches 9. (In-)Between Word, Image and Sound: Cultural Encounter in Flight Paths. Hans Kristian Rustad 10. Figures of Gestural Manipulation in Digital Fictions Serge Bouchardon 11. Hyperfiction as a Medium for Drifting Times: A Close Reading of the German Hyperfiction Zeit für die Bombe Alexandra Saemmer Afterword Roberto Simanowski

"Analyzing Digital Fiction makes a useful contribution to the field of literary studies by taking digital fiction itself as seriously as the cultural meaning of texts produced in digital form. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICE"Analyzing Digital Fiction offers an up-to-date and highly enlightening look at the various forms of digital fiction. Covering such forms as multimedia novels, Twitter fiction, and Art games, this book provides the reader with powerful tools to analyze and understand the emerging fictions of digital culture." -Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Alice Bell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.Astrid Ensslin is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Bangor University, UK.Hans Rustad is Associate Professor in Literature and New Media Communication at Hedmark University College, Norway.

• 1.Introduction: From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin and Hans Kristian Rustad Section 1: Narratological Approaches 2. Media-Specific Metalepsis in 10:01 Alice Bell 3.Digital Fiction and Worlds of Perspective David Ciccoricco 4. Seeing into the Worlds of Digital Fiction Daniel Punday Section 2: Social Media and Ludological Approaches 5. Playing with rather than by the Rules: Metaludicity, Allusive Fallacy and Illusory Agency in The Path. Astrid Ensslin 6. 140 Characters in Search of a Story: Twitterfiction as an Emerging Narrative Form Bronwen Thomas 7. Amnesia, the Dark Descent: The Player's Very Own Purgatory Susana Tosca 8. Wreading Together: The Double Plot of Collaborative Digital Fiction Isabell Klaiber Section 3: Semiotic-Rhetorical Approaches 9. (In-)Between Word, Image and Sound: Cultural Encounter in Flight Paths. Hans Kristian Rustad 10. Figures of Gestural Manipulation in Digital Fictions Serge Bouchardon 11. Hyperfiction as a Medium for Drifting Times: A Close Reading of the German Hyperfiction Zeit für die Bombe Alexandra Saemmer Afterword Roberto Simanowski

"Analyzing Digital Fiction makes a useful contribution to the field of literary studies by taking digital fiction itself as seriously as the cultural meaning of texts produced in digital form. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICE"Analyzing Digital Fiction offers an up-to-date and highly enlightening look at the various forms of digital fiction. Covering such forms as multimedia novels, Twitter fiction, and Art games, this book provides the reader with powerful tools to analyze and understand the emerging fictions of digital culture." -Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Alice Bell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.Astrid Ensslin is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Bangor University, UK.Hans Rustad is Associate Professor in Literature and New Media Communication at Hedmark University College, Norway.

• 1.Introduction: From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin and Hans Kristian Rustad Section 1: Narratological Approaches 2. Media-Specific Metalepsis in 10:01 Alice Bell 3.Digital Fiction and Worlds of Perspective David Ciccoricco 4. Seeing into the Worlds of Digital Fiction Daniel Punday Section 2: Social Media and Ludological Approaches 5. Playing with rather than by the Rules: Metaludicity, Allusive Fallacy and Illusory Agency in The Path. Astrid Ensslin 6. 140 Characters in Search of a Story: Twitterfiction as an Emerging Narrative Form Bronwen Thomas 7. Amnesia, the Dark Descent: The Player's Very Own Purgatory Susana Tosca 8. Wreading Together: The Double Plot of Collaborative Digital Fiction Isabell Klaiber Section 3: Semiotic-Rhetorical Approaches 9. (In-)Between Word, Image and Sound: Cultural Encounter in Flight Paths. Hans Kristian Rustad 10. Figures of Gestural Manipulation in Digital Fictions Serge Bouchardon 11. Hyperfiction as a Medium for Drifting Times: A Close Reading of the German Hyperfiction Zeit für die Bombe Alexandra Saemmer Afterword Roberto Simanowski

"Analyzing Digital Fiction makes a useful contribution to the field of literary studies by taking digital fiction itself as seriously as the cultural meaning of texts produced in digital form. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICE"Analyzing Digital Fiction offers an up-to-date and highly enlightening look at the various forms of digital fiction. Covering such forms as multimedia novels, Twitter fiction, and Art games, this book provides the reader with powerful tools to analyze and understand the emerging fictions of digital culture." -Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyväskylä, Finland