ABSTRACT

The emergence of e-literature – texts created on and for digital devices – has coincided with innovative, transgressive methods of storytelling. Pry, an iOS-based text, exemplifies e-literature’s potential to rethink traditional narrative conventions. Rather than depict the real-world as we experience it (i.e. mimesis), Pry features metaleptic elements (i.e. jarring transgressions across narrative levels) and unnatural temporality (i.e. nonlinear, contradictory jumps across time). This article traces how a graduate class of librarians and preservice teachers responded to Pry’s unnatural narratology through multimodal composition and annotation. Findings suggest that e-literature may demand more expansive repertoires of text interpretation and relationality.

摘要

电子文学——在数字设备上和为数字设备创建的文本——的出现与创新的、超越性的讲故事方法相吻合。Pry是一个基于 iOS 的文本，它体现了电子文学重新思考传统叙事惯例的潜力。Pry没有描绘我们所体验的真实世界（即模仿），而是描绘了金属元素（即跨越叙事层次的不和谐的越界）和非自然的时间性（即跨越时间的非线性、矛盾的跳跃）。本文追溯了一个研究生班的图书馆员和职前教师如何通过多模态组合和注释来回应Pry不自然的叙述学。研究结果表明，电子文学可能需要更广泛的文本解释和关系库。