Eskelinen Markku. Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory. Volume 2

New York: Continuum, 2012. — 472 p. — ISBN-10: 1441107452; ISBN-13: 978-1441107459.Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital literature within a more comprehensive theory capable of coming to terms with the ever-widening media varieties of literary expression, and then expands narratology far beyond its current confines resulting in multiple new possibilities for both interactive and non-interactive narratives. By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.Cybertext theory revisited
Cybertextuality and transtextuality
The textual whole
The enigma of the ergodic
Towards cybertextual narratology
Towards an expanded narratology
Tense
Mood
Voice
Ergodic and narrative discourses
Ludology and the exhaustion of narratology
Game ecology and the classic game model
Game ontology
Rules and configurative practices
Game time
Games as configurative practices: models and metaphors
Transmedial modes and ecologies
Ergodic modes and play
Textual instruments and instrumental texts