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Narrative as virtual reality 2 : revisiting immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Marie-Laure, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
Subjects:
Books and reading.
Hypertext literature.
Electronic games.
Interactive multimedia.
Virtual reality.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Virtuality
  • The two (and thousand) faces of the virtual
  • VR technology as immersion and interactivity
  • The poetics of immersion
  • The text as world: theories of immersion
  • Varieties of immersion: spatial, temporal, emotional
  • The poetics of interactivity
  • The text as world versus the text as game
  • Texts without worlds: dysfunctionality as a form of play
  • The many forms of interactivity
  • Hypertext: the functions and effects of exploratory, external interactivity
  • Reconciling immersion and interactivity
  • Participatory interactivity from life situations to drama
  • Chasing the dream of the immersive, interactive narrative
  • Conclusion.