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O niektórych strategiach otwarcia na czytelnika w wybranych przykładach literatury nowomedialnej (rekonesans)
On Strategies of Openness to the Reader in Selected Examples of New Media Literature (A Reconnaissance)

Author(s): Agnieszka Przybyszewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Literary Texts, Media studies, Library and Information Science, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Communication studies, Sociology, Theory of Communication, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Interactive literature; readers’ gestures; Oliver Jeffers; Serge Bouchardon; Naomi Alderman; iPoe

Summary/Abstract: This article looks at selected examples of e-literature and related fields to explore strategies of creating communicative openness towards the reader. Przybyszewska focuses on two different approaches: the text’s programmed playability, which results in the work’s performative nature, and strategies of including readers’ actions or gestures (most often gestures that overlap with in the imagined universe) within the sphere of the work. This inclusion conditions the reader’s ongoing discovery of the story, or it even influences the work itself. These devices strategically open text to the reader (which mirrors expectations in cultures of participation); they help strengthen the literary mechanisms of immersion or projection-identification, and finally, they facilitate the audience’s entry into the imagined universe and they highlight specific literary values.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 169-188
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish