Cybertext : perspectives on ergodic literature / Espen J. Aarseth.

Publisher description: Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse--novels, films, television series--is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it necessary to define a new ae...

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Main Author: Aarseth, Espen J., 1965-
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997], ©1997.
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Physical Description:203 pages ; 23 cm
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505 0 0 |t Ergodic literature --  |t Paradigms and perspectives --  |t Textonomy: a typology of textual communication --  |t No sense of an ending: hypertext aesthetics --  |t Intrigue and discourse in the adventure fame --  |t The cyborg author: problems of automated poetics --  |t Songs from the MUD: multiuser discourse --  |t Ruling the reader: the politics of "Interaction" --  |t The ideology of influence. 
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