Marie-Laure Ryan

'Narrative as Virtual Reality 2'

Bog | Engelsk

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "g

'Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology'

Bog | Engelsk

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned