PAGE, Ruth et Bronwen THOMAS [dir.], //New narratives: stories and storytelling in the digital age//, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2011, 285 p.

**Quatrième de couverture**

Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the changing landscape of computer-mediated communication.

New Narratives reflects the diversity of its subject by bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and theorists of digital narratives. It extends the range of digital subgenres examined by narrative theorists to include forms that have become increasingly prominent, new examples of experimental hypertext, and contemporary video games. The collection also explicitly draws connections between the development of narrative theory, technological innovation, and the use of narratives in particular social and cultural contexts.

Finally, New Narratives focuses on how the tools provided by new technologies may be harnessed to provide new ways of both producing and theorizing narrative. Truly interdisciplinary, the book offers broad coverage of contemporary narrative theory, including frameworks that draw from classical and postclassical narratology, linguistics, and media studies.

**Table des matières**

Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas - Introduction

__Part 1: New foundations__

Daniel Punday - From Synesthesia to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative

Marie-Laure Ryan - The Interactive Onion: Layers of User Participation in Digital Narrative Texts

Alice Bell - Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond)

Michael Joyce - Seeing through the Blue Nowhere: On Narrative Transparency and New Media

__Part 2: New architectures__

Nick Montfort - Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Narrative Variation 

Andrew Salway and David Herman - Digitized Corpora as Theory-Building Resource: New Methods for Narrative Inquiry

Astrid Ensslin - From (W)reader to Breather: Cybertextual De-intentionalization and Kate Pullinger's Breathing Wall

Brian Greenspan - Songlines in the Streets: Story Mapping with Itinerant Hypernarrative

Paul Cobley and Nick Haefnner - Narrative Supplements: dvd and the Idea of the “Text”

__Part 3: New practices__

Scott Rettberg - All Together Now: Hypertext, Collective Narratives, and Online Collective Knowledge Communities 

Bronwen Thomas - “Update Soon!” Harry Potter Fanfiction and Narrative as a Participatory Process

Ruth Page - Blogging on the Body: Gender and Narrative

James Newman and Iain SimonsUsing the Force: lego Star Wars: The Video Game, Intertextuality, Narrative, and Play 

Heather Lothwrington - Digital Narratives, Cultural Inclusion, and Educational Possibility: Going New Places with Old Stories in Elementary School


**Introduction**

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