""It is only the unimaginative who ever invents," Oscar Wilde once remarked. "The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything." Conveying a similar awareness, James Joyce observed in Finnegan's Wake that storytelling is in reality "stol…
""It is only the unimaginative who ever invents," Oscar Wilde once remarked. "The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything." Conveying a similar awareness, James Joyce observed in Finnegan's Wake that storytelling is in reality "stol…
This is an accessible exploration of the cult TV show "Lost", looking particularly at its fascinating use of novels, plays, stories, and other literary texts. From the moment that Watership Down made its appearance on screen in season one, speculation about "Lost"'s literary all…
In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores n…
"This book brings together game scholars to analyze the impact of video games through the lenses of transmedialitiy, intermediality, hypertextuality, architextuality, and paratextuality"--