TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,Marie-Laure TI - Avatars of story T2 - Electronic mediations SN - 0816646856 AV - PN212 .R93 2006 U1 - 808 22 PY - 2006///] CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Interactive multimedia KW - Narration (Rhetoric) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index; Introduction --; Part I; Narrative in Old Media --; 1; Narrative, Media and Modes --; 2; Drawing and Transgressing Fictional Boundaries --; 3; Narrative in Fake and Real Reality TV --; 4; Narrative in Real Time --; Part II; Narrative in New Media --; 5; Toward an Interactive Narratology --; 6; Interactive Fiction and Storyspace Hypertext --; 7; Web-based and Multimedia Narratives --; 8; Computer Games as Narrative --; 9; Metaleptic Machines N2 - Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. By grappling with semiotic media other than language and technology other than print, the text reveals how digital media convey meaning and create stories ER -