Contents: Cybertextspace

Dr. Karin Wenz, English Department, University of Kassel

Introduction

Cognitive space

• Perception
• Conceptualization
• Imagination
• Memory and space
• Writing
• Dispersion

Textual representation of space

• Cohesion
• Coherence
• Linearization

Semiotic representation of space

• Image
• Diagram
• Metaphor
• The semiotic effect of connection

Narrative space

• Intertext
•  Intratext
• Discourse-as-discoursed
• Possible worlds
• Open spaces
• Narrative Space in Computer Games

 

• Umberto Eco:
• - A Classic of Semiotics?
• - Between Theory and Fiction
• - Culture
• - Text Semiotics
 

Narrative Time

• Order
• Duration
• Frequency
• Point-by-Point
 

Textspace

• Text City

Cyberspace

• Bit City
• Simulation

Cypertextspace

• Computer Games
• New Narratives
• Myst: The Storyworld
• Myst: Intertext
• Myst: Intratext
• Game vs. Text
• Hybridization