Focalization and Digital Fiction

By Eric Dean Rasmussen, 24 September, 2012
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Year
Publisher
Pages
255-276
Journal volume and issue
20.3
License
All Rights reserved
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Print-based theories of focalization require expansion in order to account for the qualities of literary texts in digital environments. These qualities are namely the multimodality of digital fiction (which is of course not unique to it)3 and its cybernetics—that is, the recursive, algorithmically orchestrated relationship between reader and machine involving loops of human input and computer output (a feature that is certainly unique to the form).