Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
Author(s)
Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas
Collection
European Research Council (ERC)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Play; Text; Performance; Future; DigitalDOI
10.1515/9783110272390ISBN
9783110272130Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
2013Grantor
Classification
Literary studies: general