Cybertext Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

Name: Cybertext Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
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ISBN: 9780801855795

ISBN-10: 0801855799

ISBN-13: 9780801855795

Edition: 1997

Authors: Espen J. Aarseth

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Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse -- novels, films, television series -- is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it necessary to define a new aesthetics of cyborg textuality? In Cybertext, Espen Aarseth explores the aesthetics and textual dynamics of digital literature and its diverse genres, including hypertext fiction, computer games, computer-generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. Instead of insisting on the uniqueness and newness of electronic writing and interactive fiction, however, Aarseth situates these…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Ergodic Literature



Paradigms and Perspectives



Textonomy: A Typology of Textual Communication



No Sense of an Ending: Hypertext Aesthetics



Intrigue and Discourse in the Adventure Game



The Cyborg Author: Problems of Automated Poetics



Songs from the MUD: Multiuser Discourse



Ruling the Reader: The Politics of "Interaction"



Conclusions: The Ideology of Influence


References


Index