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Possibleworlds theory by marielaure ryan entry for the routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory the theory of possible worlds henceforth pw, a modern adaptation of a leibnizian concept, was originally developed by philosophers of the analytic school kripke, lewis, rescher, hintikka as a means to solve problems in formal semantics. Revisions of culture and society by ryan, marielaure 2003 paperback by marielaure ryan download narrative as virtual reality. As a literary theorist i am primarily interested in the two dimensions of the vr experience as a novel way to describe the types of reader. Revisiting immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media from johns hopkins university press. Narrative as virtual reality 2 johns hopkins university. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Where narrative theory and geography meet by marielaure ryan, kenneth foote, and maoz azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally been viewed by narratologists as a. If we compare the field of digital textuality to other areas of study in the humanities, its most striking feature is the precedence of theory over the object of study. If by narrative experience one means the pleasure of immersing oneself in a virtual world, of writing through ones actions the lifestory of fictional characters, and of participating.
Narrative and the split condition of digital textuality by marielaure ryan. Impossible worlds and aesthetic illusion marie laure ryan this essay approaches the problem of aesthetic illusion through the examination of a category of texts that inhibit this experience. Now, in narrative as virtual reality 2001, marielaure ryan, in perhaps the most detailed and thorough study to date, considers narrative processes across a broad range of texts from the. Cambridge core literary theory the cambridge introduction to narrative by h. As marie laure ryan demonstrates in narrative as virtual reality, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in preelectronic literary and artistic traditions. Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or a novel. Narrative in digital media 583 presentsmyownviewoftherole,andofthepossiblemodeofrealization ofnarrative,indigitalmedia. Marielaure ryan, an independent scholar, was most recently 20102011 johannes gutenberg fellow at the university of mainz, germany, where she researched the phenomenon of narrative distributed across various media. Impossible worlds and aesthetic illusion marielaure ryan. As marielaure ryan demonstrates in narrative as virtual reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in preelectronic literary and artistic traditions. Revisions of culture and society new ed by ryan, dr. Traces the transformation of storytelling in the digital age marielaure ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms, revealing how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars.
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