Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media - Couverture souple

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Ryan, Marie-Laure

 
9781421417974: Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
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ISBN 10 : 1421417979 ISBN 13 : 9781421417974
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions.

Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Ryan applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of narrative experience that encompasses reading, watching, and playing. The book weighs traditional literary narratives against the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past thirty years, including hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive drama, digital installation art, computer games, and multi-user online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft.

In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken--or hopes to take--in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marie-Laure Ryan is a member of the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421417979
ISBN 13 
9781421417974
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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