New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the changing landscape of computer-mediated communication.
New Narratives reflects the diversity of its subject by bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and theorists of digital narratives. It extends the range of digital subgenres examined by narrative theorists to include forms that have become increasingly prominent, new examples of experimental hypertext, and contemporary video games. The collection also explicitly draws connections between the development of narrative theory, technological innovation, and the use of narratives in particular social and cultural contexts.
Finally, New Narratives focuses on how the tools provided by new technologies may be harnessed to provide new ways of both producing and theorizing narrative. Truly interdisciplinary, the book offers broad coverage of contemporary narrative theory, including frameworks that draw from classical and postclassical narratology, linguistics, and media studies.
(Source: University of Nebraska Press catalog page)
We acknowledge that the range of texts interrogated by the authors in this volume will soon appear not so very ‘new’ at all. Instead, they might best be regarded as a selective snapshot of narrative practices--practices already significantly different from the first hypertext fictions that were the focus of the first wave of digital narratology.
Contents (Critical Writing):
Critical writing that references this:
| Title | Author | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Digital Fiction: From Hypertext to Timeline | Roberto Simanowski | Routledge | 2014 |
