1st Edition

Digital Narrative Spaces An Interdisciplinary Examination

Edited By Daniel Punday Copyright 2022
186 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

There is a broad consensus that digital narrative is "spatial," but what this critical term means and how it is used varies greatly depending on the discipline from which it is approached. Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic literature and other forms of digital authorship to explore the relationship between story and space across these... Read more

Introduction: “Four Types of Textual Space, and Their Digital Manifestations" by Marie-Laure Ryan

Chapter 1: “Unnatural Spaces in The Pickle Index: Inscrutable Mapping and Post-digital Dys-topicalization" by Astrid Ensslin

Chapter 2: “Stalking Rebus: Locative Media and Global Conspiracy" by Brian L. Greenspan

Chapter 3: “Virtual Wanderings: Embodied Spatial Narrativity in ‘Walking Simulators’" by Greg Whistance-Smith

Chapter 4: “Pencils, paper, and pixels: Mapping imaginary spaces" by Paul Wake

Chapter 5: “Behind-the-Screens (BTS) Storytelling: Reverse Engineering

the Computational Infrastructure of Nick Montfort’s Round from CPU to Silicon" by Lai-Tze Fan

Chapter 6: “The Digital Terrain of the Literary Anecdote" by David Ciccoricco

Chapter 7: “Footprints in Spatial Narratives: Wearable Technology, Active Reading, and a New Digital Literary Mapping of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Scafell Pike Excursion" by Joanna E. Taylor and Christopher Donaldson

Chapter 8: “Archival Interface and Nationalist Memorializations of 9/11" by Dhanashree Thorat

Conclusion: “Digital Space and the Keyword" by Daniel Punday

Biography

Daniel Punday received his PhD in English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently Head of the Department of English at Mississippi State University. He has published on contemporary literature, digital narrative, and narrative theory. He has recently completed his term as the president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. His previous publications include Computing as Writing (2015) and Writing at the Limit: Searching for the Vocation of the Novel in the Contemporary Media Ecology (2012).