"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 liter…
Publisher description: 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 necessa…
Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic fundamentals of anaphors and anaphora; 2.1 Basic definitions; 2.2 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 2.2.1 Coreference; 2.2.2 Substitution; 2.2.3 Comparison of coreference and substitution; 2.2.4 Sense relations; 2.3…
"This monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new-media writing. Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the mot…
This text examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but t…
Words on the web: computer mediated communication
In Reading Hypertext, Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco have selected the best and most important studies of hypertext reading and criticism, drawn from disciplines ranging from philosophy and classical philology to film theory and technocriticism. These indispensable studies revea…