Digital narrative spaces: an interdisciplinary examination

"There is a broad consensus that digital narrative is "spatial," but what this critical term means and how it is used varies greatly depending on the discipline from which it is approached. Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic literature and other forms of digital authorship, to explore the relationship between story and space across these disciplines. This volume includes an introduction with Marie-Laure Ryan's typology of space, followed by thought-provoking individual chapters which explore innovative explorations of electronic literature, locative media, literary tourism, and the mapping of real-world literary spaces. The collection closes with an essay analyzing continuities and discontinuities in theory of space across the chapters. This volume will provide an important framework for establishing a dialogue across disciplines and future scholarship in these fields"--

Introduction: "Four Types of Textual Space, and Their Digital Manifestations" by Marie-Laure RyanChapter 1: "Unnatural Spaces in The Pickle Index: Inscrutable Mapping and Post-digital Dys-topicalization" by Astrid EnsslinChapter 2: "Stalking Rebus: Locative Media and Global Conspiracy" by Brian L. GreenspanChapter 3: "Virtual Wanderings: Embodied Spatial Narrativity in 'Walking Simulators'" by Greg Whistance-SmithChapter 4: "Pencils, paper, and pixels: Mapping imaginary spaces" by Paul WakeChapter 5: "Behind-the-Screens (BTS) Storytelling: Reverse Engineeringthe Computational Infrastructure of Nick Montfort's Round from CPU to Silicon" by Lai-Tze FanChapter 6: "The Digital Terrain of the Literary Anecdote" by David CiccoriccoChapter 7: "Footprints in Spatial Narratives: Wearable Technology, Active Reading, and a New Digital Literary Mapping of Dorothy Wordsworth's Scafell Pike Excursion" by Joanna E. Taylor and Christopher DonaldsonChapter 8: "Archival Interface and Nationalist Memorializations of 9/11" by Dhanashree ThoratConclusion: "Digital Space and the Keyword" by Daniel Punday