Volume 2 Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture

Felicitas Meifert-Menhard

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Volume 2 Playing the Text, Performing the Future

Future Narratives in Print and Digiture

Felicitas Meifert-Menhard

Part of the multi-volume work Narrating Futures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272390

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About this book

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.

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Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction: Narrating the Future in Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Tellability of the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3. Textual Future Narratives – Form and Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. A Typology of Future Narratives in Print and Digiture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5. Selected Readings of Future Narratives: From Print to Digiture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary Studies, Game Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 237
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Play; Text; Performance; Future; Digital

eBook

Published: October 14, 2013
ISBN: 9783110272390

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2013
ISBN: 9783110272130