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Writing at the limit : the novel in the new media ecology
\"An examination of the relationship between contemporary fiction and new media from a narratological perspective\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Playing at Narratology
In Playing at Narratology Daniel Punday bridges the worlds
of digital media studies and narrative studies by arguing that
digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions, ambiguities,
and gaps in core narrative concepts. Rather than developing new
terms to account for web-based storytelling, Punday uses
established narrative forms to better understand how digital media
exposes faulty gaps in narrative theory. Punday's Playing at
Narratology shows that artists, video game developers, and
narrative theorists are ultimately playing the same game. Returning
to terms such as narrator, setting, event, character, and
world, Playing at Narratology reveals new ways of
thinking about these basic narrative concepts-concepts that are not
so basic when applied to games and web-based narratives. What are
thought of as narrative innovations in these digital forms are a
product of technological ability and tied to how we physically
interact with a medium, creating new and complicated questions: Is
the game designer the implied author or the narrator? Is the space
on the screen simply the story's setting? Playing at
Narratology guides us through the evolution of narrative in
new media without abandoning the field's theoretical foundations.
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Writing at the Limit
While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium.
By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling.
Writing at the Limitexplores how novelists locate print writing within the contemporary media ecology, and what it really means to be writing at print's media limit.
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The Occasion in Rhetorical Narrative Theory
This essay argues for greater attention to the concept of “occasion” in rhetorical theories of narrative. Although occasion is routinely recognized as an element of the rhetorical situation, it is rarely given attention in narrative theory outside of instances of character narration. I examine how the occasion of the book itself can be theorized. Drawing on Katra Byram’s 2022 essay “Narrative as Social Action,” I examine the way Ling Ma draws attention to publishing logistics in her novel Severance to show that book publication itself can be understood as constructing an occasion. Ma offers a model that balances the material circumstances of the book itself against the imaginary relationships we project onto the book and the creative force behind the work. This essay concludes by arguing that this kind of occasion has application to a wide variety of qualities associated with the work’s paratext.
Journal Article
The Occasion in Rhetorical Narrative Theory
This essay argues for greater attention to the concept of \"occasion\" in rhetorical theories of narrative. Although occasion is routinely recognized as an element of the rhetorical situation, it is rarely given attention in narrative theory outside of instances of character narration. I examine how the occasion of the book itself can be theorized. Drawing on Katra Byram's 2022 essay \"Narrative as Social Action\", I examine the way Ling Ma draws attention to publishing logistics in her novel Severance to show that book publication itself can be understood as constructing an occasion. Ma offers a model that balances the material circumstances of the book itself against the imaginary relationships we project onto the book and the creative force behind the work. This essay concludes by arguing that this kind of occasion has application to a wide variety of qualities associated with the work's paratext.
Journal Article
Computing as Writing
This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices (\"notebook\" computers) through the design of user interfaces (the \"desktop\") to how we describe the work of programmers (\"writing\" code).Computing as Writingponders both the implications and contradictions of the metaphor.
During the past decade, analysis of digital media honed its focus on particular hardware and software platforms. Daniel Punday argues that scholars should, instead, embrace both the power and the fuzziness of the writing metaphor as it relates to computing-which isn't simply a set of techniques or a collection of technologies but also anideathat resonates throughout contemporary culture. He addresses a wide array of subjects, including film representations of computing (Desk Set, The Social Network), Neal Stephenson's famous open source manifesto, J. K. Rowling's legal battle with a fan site, the sorting of digital libraries, subscription services like Netflix, and the Apple versus Google debate over openness in computing.
Punday shows how contemporary authors are caught between traditional notions of writerly authority and computing's emphasis ondoingthings with writing. What does it mean to be a writer today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Should we change how we teach writing? Punday's answers to these questions and others are original and refreshing, and push the study of digital media in productive new directions.
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