Digital Fictions

Autorentext
Sarah Sloane

Klappentext
When researchers in computer-mediated communications discuss digital textuality, they rarely venture beyond the now commonplace notion that computer textuality embodies contemporary post-structuralist theories. Written for students and faculty of contemporary literature and composition theories, this book is the first to move from general to specific considerations. Advancing from general considerations of how computers are changing literacy, Digital Fictions moves on to a specific consideration of how computers are altering one particular set of literature practices: reading and writing fiction. Suffused through the sensibility of a creative writer, this book includes an historical overview of writing stories on computers. In addition, Sloane conducts interviews with the makers of hypertext fictions (including Stuart Moulthrop, Michael Joyce, and Carolyn Guyer) and offers close reading of digital fictions. Making careful analyses of the meaning-making activities of both readers and writers of this emerging genre, this work is embedded in a perspective both feminist and semiotic. Digital Fictions explores and distinguishes among four distinct iterations of text-based digital fictions; text adventures, Carnegie Mellon University Oz Project, hypertext fictions, and MUDs. Ultimately, Sloane revises the rhetorical triangle and proposes a new rhetorical theory, one that attends to the materials, processes, and locations of stories told on-line.

Zusammenfassung
This study moves from a general consideration of how computers are changing literacy to a specific consideration of how computers are altering reading and writing fiction. It includes interviews with makers of hypertext fictions, close readings of digital fictions, and analyses of the genre.

Inhalt
An Introduction to Composing Fictions Theorizing Digital Fiction The Materials of Digital Fiction The Process of Composing Digital Fiction Muddy Rivers, Malestreams, and Splitting the Atom of "I": Locating the Reader in Digital Fiction Afterword: Foxes in Space References Author Index Subject Index

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