Narrative As Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media - Couverture rigide

Ryan, Marie-Laure

 
9780801864872: Narrative As Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
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ISBN 10 : 0801864879 ISBN 13 : 9780801864872
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or a novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in this study, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions. Formerly a culture of immersive ideals - getting lost in a good book, for example -we are becoming, Ryan claims, a culture more concerned with interactivity. Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, the text applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of reading. Ryan's analysis encompasses both traditional literary narratives and the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution, such as hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive movies and drama, digital installation art, and computer role-playing games. As she considers the fate of traditional narrative patterns in digital culture, Ryan revisits one of the central issues in modern literary theory - the opposition between a presumably passive reading that is taken over by the world a text represents and an active, deconstructive reading that imaginatively participates in the text's creation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar and former software consultant. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory and the editor of Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801864879
ISBN 13 
9780801864872
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0801877539 ISBN 13 :  9780801877537
Editeur : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
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