ERGOCRITICISM. AN (EVENTUAL) ERGODIC LITERATURE INTERPRETATION INSTRUMENT
ERGOCRITICISM. AN (EVENTUAL) ERGODIC LITERATURE INTERPRETATION INSTRUMENT

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is the advancement of a direction of literary criticism of the ergodic text, named Ergocriticism and the formulation of an applicable instrument in the interpretation of ergodic literature. This reserch is based on the studies of E. Aarseth, R. Ingarden, A. Marino, E.-M. Kontopoulou et other literary theorists. Advancing a theoretical direction of the interpretation of the ergodic text – Ergocriticism, supported by an inventory of critical grids, we facilitate the analysis of this literary phenomenon. The literary forms of ergodic literature (cybertext, hypertext, Interactive Fiction, Hyperfiction, MUDs etc.) evolve Bakhtinian dialogism, permuting the reader in the hypostasis of (co) author, in direct relation to spatodynamic metaphors, whose interpretation can be achieved only by merging critical tracks such as Roman Ingarden's grid (the treated vision of the literary work), the Markov's chain (which analyzes the probability of choice in an ergodic text) and the medium-support of the text which, according to E. Aarseth, is represented by a set of variables with possible values that describe them. This article presents our attempt to structure a possible inventory useful to the critic, a model (pilot) of ergodic criticism.

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