{"title":"Escape into Alternative Worlds and Time(s) in Jack London’s The Star Rover","authors":"C. Bartsch","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128079,"journal":{"name":"Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131557571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital technology has allowed narrative experimentation to expand beyond the page and into an entire network of linked media. Hypertext provides a structure within which chunks of text can be connected in both linear and multilinear configurations; the Web, as an ever-expanding hypertext system, allows digital texts to be linked to other digital texts, both fictional and non-fictional. In this chapter, I explore recent experiments with hyperlinks in digital fiction and argue that hyperlinks offer authors a medium-specific (Hayles 2004) means of playing with the ontological boundary between fiction and reality. I propose a method for analyzing the ontological function of external hyperlinks in web-based fiction by developing possible worlds theory for its application to digital literary fiction. Rather than offering a purely philosophical or abstract account of fictionality (e.g. Lewis 1978) or a transmedia approach to fictionality (e.g. Zipfel 2014; Ryan 2006, 31-58), this chapter contributes to the development of possible worlds theory as a transmedial approach to fiction, fictionality, individual fictional texts and, in this case, digital fiction. I propose that some texts use hyperlinks to create flickers between worlds which require the reader to recenter into two different modal universes simultaneously or else rapidly toggle between them - a process that I define here as doubly-deictic (cf. Herman 2002) recentering. I then show that how external links can be used to create a denouement which relies on the reader completely revising their perspective of the fictional world. Finally, I show how digital texts can use external links to cause unmarked ontological merges between the actual and textual world worlds so as to create an emotionally immersive experience. I thus provide a typology of ontologically playful hyperlinks. I end by suggesting that the use of hyperlinks in digital fiction is part of a more general artistic trend in post-millennial fiction, that of "Remix" (Navas 2012) and that the texts also embody post-postmodern (McLaughlin 2012) thematic concerns.
{"title":"Digital Fictionality:","authors":"Alice Bell","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.15","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technology has allowed narrative experimentation to expand beyond the page and into an entire network of linked media. Hypertext provides a structure within which chunks of text can be connected in both linear and multilinear configurations; the Web, as an ever-expanding hypertext system, allows digital texts to be linked to other digital texts, both fictional and non-fictional. In this chapter, I explore recent experiments with hyperlinks in digital fiction and argue that hyperlinks offer authors a medium-specific (Hayles 2004) means of playing with the ontological boundary between fiction and reality. I propose a method for analyzing the ontological function of external hyperlinks in web-based fiction by developing possible worlds theory for its application to digital literary fiction. Rather than offering a purely philosophical or abstract account of fictionality (e.g. Lewis 1978) or a transmedia approach to fictionality (e.g. Zipfel 2014; Ryan 2006, 31-58), this chapter contributes to the development of possible worlds theory as a transmedial approach to fiction, fictionality, individual fictional texts and, in this case, digital fiction. I propose that some texts use hyperlinks to create flickers between worlds which require the reader to recenter into two different modal universes simultaneously or else rapidly toggle between them - a process that I define here as doubly-deictic (cf. Herman 2002) recentering. I then show that how external links can be used to create a denouement which relies on the reader completely revising their perspective of the fictional world. Finally, I show how digital texts can use external links to cause unmarked ontological merges between the actual and textual world worlds so as to create an emotionally immersive experience. I thus provide a typology of ontologically playful hyperlinks. I end by suggesting that the use of hyperlinks in digital fiction is part of a more general artistic trend in post-millennial fiction, that of \"Remix\" (Navas 2012) and that the texts also embody post-postmodern (McLaughlin 2012) thematic concerns.","PeriodicalId":128079,"journal":{"name":"Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114892937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“As Many Worlds as Original Artists”:","authors":"Thomas L. Martin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8xng0c.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128079,"journal":{"name":"Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123797573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Possible Worlds to Storyworlds:","authors":"Marie-Laure Ryan","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV8XNG0C.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV8XNG0C.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128079,"journal":{"name":"Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123036813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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