Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Re-Specifications of Perspective
5. The DNS of Mediacy 11
6. Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here? 41
7. Perspectivization and Focalization: Two Concepts—One Meaning? An Attempt at Conceptual Differentiation 59
8. A Brief Introduction to an Enunciative Approach to Point of View 79
9. Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration 99
10. Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory 119
11. Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Wandering Perspectives in “We”-Narration 143
12. Part II: Some Special Aspects of Mediation
13. A Comparative Analysis of Indices of Narrative Point of View in Bulgarian and English 163
14. Focalization, the Subject and the Act of Shaping Perspective 183
15. Coming to Our Senses: Narratology and the Visual 201
16. Part III: Transliterary Aspects of Mediation
17. Organizing the Perspectives: Focalization and the Superordinate Narrative System in Drama and Theater 221
18. Focalization, Ocularization and Auricularization in Film and Literature 243
19. Film Narratology: Who Tells? Who Shows? Who Focalizes? Narrative Mediation in Self-Reflexive Fiction Films 259
20. Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games 279
21. Backmatter 301