Hamlet on the holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace

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Title:

Author:

Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-

ISBN:

9780262631877

9788449307652

Personal Author:

Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]

Physical Description:

xii, 324 pages ; 23 cm

General Note:

Contents:

A new medium for storytelling -- Lord Burleigh's kiss -- Harbingers of the holodeck -- From additive to expressive form -- The aesthetics of the medium -- Immersion -- Agency -- Transformation -- Procedural authorship -- The cyberbard and the multiform plot -- Eliza's daughters -- New beauty, new truth -- Digital TV and the emerging formats of cyberdrama -- Hamlet on the holodeck?

Subject Term:

Interactive multimedia.

Virtual reality.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Narration (Rhetoric)

Cyberspace.

Realidad virtual.

Literatura -- Historia y crítica.

Narración (Retórica)

Ciberespacio.

Intertextualidad.

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Summary

Stories define how we think, play, and understand our lives. In this comprehensive and readable book--already a classic statement of the aesthetics of digital media, acclaimed by practitioners and theorists alike--Janet Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by. Murray discusses the unique properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative. She analyzes the dramatic satisfaction of participatory stories and considers what would be necessary to move interactive fiction from the formats of childish games and confusing labyrinths into a mature and compelling art form. Through a blend of imagination and techno-wizardry, Murray provides both readers and writers with a guide to the storytelling of the future.