From Synesthesias to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative

An argument for a multimedia narratology that accounts for both relationships between media within a digital work and how work positions itself within a larger media multiplicty. Punday develops his argument in part through a reading of the multimedia aesthetic in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia.

Pull Quotes:

Because of my desire to retain the history that cognitive theory can leave behind, I would like to resurrect a term that passed out of vogue some time ago, multimedia, which emphasizes existing cultural models of the various channels through which we encounter information.

[T]he tendency to associate or differentiate one medium from another is never unmotivated.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Lexia to Perplexia	Talan Memmott	2000

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Avatars of Story	Marie-Laure Ryan	2009
Cybertext Theory: What an English Professor Should Know Before Trying	Markku Eskelinen	2001
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
The Language of New Media	Lev Manovich	2000

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

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