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1. Rereading and the SimCity Effect in Electronic Literature

   Rereading, the act of going back and reexperiencing a text, is often seen as one
   possible measure of the quality of a literary text. However, what it means to
   reread a work of electronic literature, particularly one that responds procedurally
   to reader actions, is not clear (Mitchell and McGee, 2012). One particular
   way that readers reread print literature is what Calinescu (1993) refers to as
   reflective rereading, which involves “a meditative or critically inquisitive revisiting
   of a text one has already read” (Calinescu, 1993, p. 277). In this paper we
   argue that, in electronic literature, reflective rereading can involve examining
   the surface of an interactive work which one has already read, with the aim
   of gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of how the underlying system
   functions and how this internal structure relates to the surface experience
   of the work. We draw parallels between this form of reflective rereading and
   Wardrip-Fruin’s “SimCity Effect”, which he describes as being present in “systems
   that shape their surface experience to enable the audience to build up an
   

   Daniela Ørvik - 17.02.2015 - 15:34