Cybertext Poetics

The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvMarkku Eskelinen

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The book uses cybertext theory and ludology to solve several persistent problems in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. 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."International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics" provides a platform for new scholarship in the area of electronic art and literature, to be presented from the perspective of critical aesthetics - philosophical positions dedicated to the problem of how and whether technology as a medium for art and literature simultaneously makes reference to and differs from the use of more traditional media and methods for these expressive practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-03-08
Mått138 x 216 x 31 mm
Vikt792 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
Antal sidor472
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441124388

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Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Cybertext Theory Revisited; Chapter 3: Cybertextuality and Transtextuality; Chapter 4: The Textual Whole; Chapter 5: Modes, Genres, Text Types and the Enigma of the Ergodic; Chapter 6: Towards Cybertextual Narratology: The Amalgam of Narratologies; Chapter 7: Interval 1: Towards an Expanded Narratology; Chapter 8: Tense; Chapter 9: Mood; Chapter 10: Voice; Chapter 11: Interval 2: Ergodic and Narrative Discourses; Chapter 12: Ludology and the Exhaustion of Narratology; Chapter 13: Game Ecology and the Classic Game Model; Chapter 14: Game Ontology; Chapter 15: The Gaming Situation; Chapter 16: Game Time; Chapter 17: Interval 3: Games as Configurative Practices: Models and Metaphors; Chapter 18: Transmedial Modes and Ecologies; Chapter 19: Ergodic Modes and Play; Chapter 20: Textual Instruments and Instrumental Texts; Bibliography; Index.

Markku Eskelinen has built a great critical monument devoted to the text as a whole and its theoretical study ranging stunningly across literary theory, ludology, ergodism, new media studies and transmediality. His deep knowledge of the subjects that are object of his sharp attention, his intelligence and intellectual brightness, his provocative style and the will to understand and explain how textuality works make Eskelinen the foremost scholar in the field. With connections to all literary media and transtextual relations between them, Cybertext Poetics is a major work of cultural criticism that reminds us of the power of literature. --Laura Borràs, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Barcelona, Spain; and Director of the Hermeneia Research Group