Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World

This PhD dissertation is about works in which the user is a character in a fictional world, and the interaction that such works allow. What happens when you become a character in the story you're reading?

The concept "ontological interaction" is proposed, which is a form of interaction where the user is included in the fictional world. Kendall Walton's concept of fictional worlds is explored in relation to electronic literature and digital art, and other narratological concepts are also examined, in addition to a general focus on the themes of force and control.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
Blue Company	Rob Wittig	2002
Colossal Cave Adventure	Will Crowther, Don Woods	1976
Dage med Diam eller Livet om natten	Svend Åge Madsen	1972
David Still :)	David Still	2001
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel	Milorad Pavić	1988
Dream Kitchen	Leon Cmielewski, Josephine Starrs	2000
ELIZA	Joseph Weizenbaum	1966
Forward Anywhere	Judy Malloy, Cathy Marshall	1995
I Am a Singer	Megan Heyward	1997
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler	Italo Calvino	1981
Kaycee Nicole	Kaycee Nicole Swenson	1999
Love, Life & Email	Simon Beaufoy	2001
Magic-Tree	Rik Lander	2002
Online Caroline	Tim Wright, Rob Bevan	2000
Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	1962
Patchwork Girl	Shelley Jackson	1995
Rayuela / Hopscotch	Julio Cortazar	1963
Reagan Library	Stuart Moulthrop	1999
Surrender Control	Tim Etchells	2001

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Choice vs. Interaction: the Case of Online Caroline	William Cole	2001
Computers as Theatre	Brenda Laurel	2011
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond	Raine Koskimaa	2000
Do You Think You're Part of This? Digital Texts and the Second Person Address	Jill Walker Rettberg	2000
How I Was Played by Online Caroline	Jill Walker Rettberg	2006
Mimesis as Make-Believe: on the Foundations of the representational Arts	Kendall Walton	1990
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media	Marie-Laure Ryan	2015
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics	Michael Joyce	2002
Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon	Jill Walker Rettberg	1999
Remediation: Understanding New Media	Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin	2001
The End of Books--Or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives	J. Yellowlees Douglas	2003
Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds. Multiuser Textuality and the Emergence of Story	Lisbeth Klastrup	2004
Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction	Nick Montfort	2005
Wreader's Digest - How To Appreciate Hyperfiction	Anja Rau	2001
“How Do I Stop This Thing?” Closure And Indeterminacy In Interactive Narratives	J. Yellowlees Douglas	1994

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
A Short History of Electronic Literature and Communities in the Nordic Countries	Hans Kristian Rustad	Dichtung Digital	2012
Expressive Processing: On Process-Intensive Literature and Digital Media	Noah Wardrip-Fruin		2006
Techno-historical Limits of the Interface: The Performance of Interactive Narrative Experiences	Andrew Hutchison		2009
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008
Textopia: Experiments with Locative Literature	Anders Sundnes Løvlie		2010
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue	Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg		2013

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