Analyzing Digital Fiction

Analyzing Digital Fiction

by Astrid Ensslin (Editor), Alice Bell (Editor), Alice Bell (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor), Hans Rustad (Editor)

Synopsis

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. Analyzing Digital Fiction offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology. Essays propose ways in which digital environments can expand, challenge and test the limits of literary theories which have, until recently, predominantly been based on models and analyses of print texts.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08 Jul 2016

ISBN 10: 113821051X
ISBN 13: 9781138210516

Media Reviews

Analyzing Digital Fiction makes a useful contribution to the field of literary studies by taking digital fiction itself as seriously as the cultural meaning of texts produced in digital form. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. - CHOICE

Analyzing Digital Fiction offers an up-to-date and highly enlightening look at the various forms of digital fiction. Covering such forms as multimedia novels, Twitter fiction, and Art games, this book provides the reader with powerful tools to analyze and understand the emerging fictions of digital culture. -Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Author Bio
Alice Bell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Astrid Ensslin is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Bangor University, UK. Hans Rustad is Associate Professor in Literature and New Media Communication at Hedmark University College, Norway.