"Refines, critiques, and expands unnatural, cognitive, and transmedial narratology by looking at digital-born fictions ranging from hypertext and interactive fiction to 3D-narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality"--
Refines, critiques, and expands unnatural, cognitive, and transmedial narratology by looking at digital-born fictions.
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of unnatural narratology as a medium-specific and transmedial phenomenon. It applies and adapts key concepts of narrative theory and analysis to digital-born fictions ranging from hypertext and interactive fiction to 3D-narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. The book addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction by focusing on multilinearity and narrative contradiction, interactional metalepsis, impossible time and space, &;extreme&; digital narration, and medium-specific forms of textual &;you.&; In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands unnatural, cognitive, and transmedial narratology by placing the form of these new narratives front and center.
