Looking Behind the Façade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama

Critical Writing
Author: 
Jörgen Schäfer
Publication Type: 
Article or chapter in a book
Conference paper or presentation
Language: 
English
Year: 
2009
Presented at Event: 
Reading Digital Literature
Appears in: 
Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism
Pages: 
143-161
Record Status: 
Revisions required
Tags: 
interactive dramagames
Pull Quotes: 

My main assumption is that for reading and analyzing digital literature as ‘literature,’ the semantics of literary concepts need to be more durable than the pragmatics of communicative acts.

Works referenced:

Titlesort descending Author Year
Façade Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern 2005
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Critical writing referenced:

Titlesort descending Author Year
A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games Michael Mateas 2004
Behind Façade: An Interview with Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas Brenda Bakker Harger, Andrew Stern, Michael Mateas 2006
Computers as Theatre Brenda Laurel 2011
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace Janet H. Murray 1998
Playing With Signs: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Net Literature Peter Gendolla, Jörgen Schäfer 2007
Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization’s Directory (2007) Joseph Tabbi 2007
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Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource Teaching Resource Type Author Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2012) Syllabus Davin Heckman, Patricia Tomaszek 2012

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