Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Borderlands of Narrativity 9
5. Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics 25
6. The Data of Life and the Life of Data 41
7. The Potentialities of Data 57
8. Unnecessary Complications? 71
9. Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption Videogames 85
10. Detecting Liminality 99
11. “To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1” 113
12. Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar 129
13. The Poetics and Politics of Staring 143
14. “No Show Dissed Quite Like This One” 157
15. Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital 171
16. Home Front Autobiographies of the ‘War on Terror’ 187
17. Form and/in Modernity 203
18. Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons 217
19. Narrating Authorship 233
20. Endings and Sustainability 249
21. Contributors 263