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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Espen J. Aarseth
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Description for Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Paperback. He then uses the perspective of ergodic aesthetics to reexamine literary theories of narrative, semiotics, and rhetoric and to explore the implications of applying these theories to materials for which they were not intended. Num Pages: 216 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
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 literary forms within ... Read more
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 literary forms within ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
257g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801855795
SKU
V9780801855795
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About Espen J. Aarseth
Espen J. Aarseth is associate professor in the Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway.
Reviews for Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
A book that critics and researchers in the field cannot easily ignore. Svenska Dagbladet