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Lost Locus Impetus
Found this note (slipped in a box of papers) and regret that there is no bibliographic information connected with it. My Internet searches yield no location for this: Riffaterre – telos marks the difference between narration and description But I … Continue reading
Target Practice Trope
Reads like Quixote with its troping on the tale told and its telling: Michael Blouin, I Am Billy the Kid. It’s deliriously delightful: You won’t find that story in any book that’s been writ except for this one that you’re … Continue reading
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On the Spaces of Narrative
Lisa Robertson“The Hut”Boat what matters in the nar native is not the story but the shad ows it casts narrative becom es a linking space where elements can be ta ken up again, reanimated it holds rather t han represents … Continue reading
Art + Fact
Further to the meditations on ancestral objects and stories offered by Bonnie Devine … Artifacts may only be remnants left behind by the people who went before us, but to me, holding an artifact is like shaking hands with the … Continue reading
Jeux d’esprit et Esprit du jeu
A fabulous forty minutes … Before Bridgerton: Representation in Austen-Inspired Games Emily M. N. Kugler reminds us the past is messy, the past is relevant, and story telling is an incredibly powerful art This is billed as an overview of … Continue reading
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Ratios
I was involved in a discussion about the dynamics of a play that incorporated people talking about literature. I asked if destiny could represent constraints on action and the discussion of causes represent a zone of freedom. I thought I … Continue reading
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A Recent Death
Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage I do love the television adaptations of the Miss Marple series. I also love the novels for the tricks that are hard to reproduce televisually. I like how Christie through the voice of her … Continue reading
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quasi mise en abyme
Joanne Fluke Strawberry Shortcake Murder It is not quite writing about this writing but it is about writing… Hannah sat down at the white Formica table she’d found at the thrift shop and reached for the green-lined stenographer’s notebook that … Continue reading
Granularity and Modularity
Brenda Laurel Computers as Theatre – Second Edition Assembling micro events into the arc of drama… Side Bar page 81 In the sense that I speak about “human-computer interaction,” I mean enabling and representing actions with human and technological participants. … Continue reading
Choice and Shape or the Shape of Choice
Margaret Thomas Kelso Peter Weyhrauch Joseph Bates “Dramatic Presence” in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments January 1993 Finally, we wanted to know if the interactor could be guided without feeling manipulated. We believe that providing a satisfying experience for an … Continue reading
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