The End of Books--Or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives

J. Yellowlees Douglas looks at the new light that interactive narratives may shed on theories of reading and interpretation and the possibilities for hypertext novels, World Wide Web-based short stories, and cinematic, interactive narratives on CD-ROM. She confronts questions that are at the center of the current debate: Does an interactive story demand too much from readers? Does the concept of readerly choice destroy the author's vision? Does interactivity turn reading fiction from "play" into "work" - too much work? Will hypertext fiction overtake the novel as a form of art or entertainment? And what might future interactive books look like?

(Source: Book jacket)

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Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
Victory Garden	Stuart Moulthrop	1991

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Card Shark and Thespis: Exotic Tools for Hypertext Narrative	Mark Bernstein		2001
Explorations of Ergodic Literature: The Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation	Shuen-shing Lee	Dichtung Digital	2002
Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel	Scott Rettberg		2003
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World	Jill Walker Rettberg		2003
Creating Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of Confutation	Donna Leishman		2004
Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media	Maria Engberg		2007
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008
Techno-historical Limits of the Interface: The Performance of Interactive Narrative Experiences	Andrew Hutchison		2009
Digital Media	Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg	Modern Language Association (MLA)	2010
E-Borges: Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden	Álvaro Seiça	Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/A Journal of Anglo-American Studies	2012
Theorizing Digital Narrative: Beginnings, Endings, and Authorship	Jennifer Roudabush		2012
Blogging	Jill Walker Rettberg	Polity	2014
Blogging	Jill Walker Rettberg	Polity	2014
Nonlinear Writing	Astrid Ensslin	Johns Hopkins University Press	2014
Shuffling the Sjuzhet in Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1	Courtney A. Pfahl	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction	2015
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	Polity	2018
Generating Narrative in an Interactive Fiction Game	John L Jacko		2018

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 1: Genres of Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction

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