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Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality

Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality

Bell, Alice
Ensslin, Astrid

Paperback

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 1032738189
ISBN13: 9781032738185
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of medial reading, it argues for the centrality of an audience's interest in, awareness of and/or attention to the medium in which a text is produced and received, and which we argue should be applied to reader data across media. The book analyses and theorises five generations of digital fiction and their reading including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. It showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of qualitative reader response research across a variety of contexts and settings from screen-based and embodied interaction to gallery installation, and from reading group and individual interview to think-aloud methodologies. The book thus addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction reading by designing and reporting on new empirical studies focusing on hypertextuality, interactivity, immersion, as well as medium-specific forms of textual you, ontological ambiguity, reader orientation and empathy. In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands cognitive, transmedial, and empirical narratology and stylistics by placing the reader of these new narratives front and centre.

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