Author Description

Written For And Read On A Computer Screen, Digital Fiction Pursues Its Verbal, Discursive And Conceptual Complexity Through The Digital Medium. It Is Fiction Whose Structure, Form And Meaning Are Dictated By The Digital Context In Which It Is Produced And Requires Analytical Approaches That Are Sensitive To Its Status As A Digital Artifact. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. From Theorizing To Analyzing Digital Fiction -- 2. Media-specific Metalepsis In 10:01 / Alice Bell / Astrid Ensslin / Hans Kristian Rustad -- 3. Digital Fiction And Worlds Of Perspective / Alice Bell -- 4. Seeing Into The Worlds Of Digital Fiction / David Ciccoricco -- 5. Playing With Rather Than By The Rules: Metaludicity, Allusive Fallacy, And Illusory Agency In The Path / Daniel Punday -- 6.140 Characters In Search Of A Story: Twitterfiction As An Emerging Narrative Form / Astrid Ensslin -- 7. Amnesia: The Dark Descent: The Player's Very Own Purgatory / Bronwen Thomas -- 8. Wreading Together: The Double Plot Of Collaborative Digital Fiction / Susana Tosca -- 9.(in- )between Word, Image, And Sound: Cultural Encounter In Pullinger And Joseph's Flight Paths / Isabell Klaiber -- 10. Figures Of Gestural Manipulation In Digital Fictions / Hans Kristian Rustad -- 11. Hyperfiction As A Medium For Drifting Times: A Close Reading Of The German Hyperfiction Zeit Für Die Bombe / Serge Bouchardon -- 12. Reading Digital Fiction: From Hypertext To Timeline / Alexandra Saemmer. Edited By Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin And Hans Kristian Rustad. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.