Overview
Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. Analyzing Digital Fiction offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology. Essays propose ways in which digital environments can expand, challenge and test the limits of literary theories which have, until recently, predominantly been based on models and analyses of print texts.
Full Product Details
Author: Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, UK) ,
Hans Rustad (Hedmark University College, Norway)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138210516
ISBN 10: 113821051
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 27 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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 Jyvaskyla, Finland
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 Jyvaskyla, Finland
""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
Author Information
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.
