Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Part One: “Nothing Comes of Nothing”
5. Rhapsodic Textualities 15
6. Passing the Calvino Test? Writing Machines and Literary Ghosts 23
7. Part Two: Introspective Texts
8. Writing Through Contemporary Self-Translation A Constructive Technogenetic Intervention 47
9. Pwning Gamers, One Text at a Time 57
10. Part Three: Where is Narrative?
11. Character: A Concept That Does Not Stand Still 75
12. Shelley Jackson’s Grotesque Corpus Notes on my body⎯a Wunderkammer 87
13. Choice and Disbelief: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity 107
14. Creative Process: Interweaving Methods, Content and Technology 133
15. Distilling the Elements of “Networked Narratives” with Digital Alchemy 151
16. Part Five: Trans-Multi-Inter-Meta (The Medium)
17. The Creative Process as a “Dance of Agency” Shelley Jackson’s Snow: Performing Literary Text with Elements 169
18. Narrative Across Media: Trans-Stories In-Betweeness 187
19. Part Six: Tracking and Preserving Texts
20. Face, a Keyword Story The Archiving Vocabulary for Facial Expression in the German Imaginary from Printed Text to Digital Image 207
21. Curating “Shapeshifting Texts” 253
22. Postscript Loosely Connected Only to What it’s Coming After 271
23. Contributors 279