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Book SynopsisBy examining how some of the best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting.
Writing at the Limit explores what it really means to be writing at print's media limit.
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Writing at the Limit is a necessary study of limits: not just of what the critic can say about the novel, but also of what the novel can say about itself."—Kurt Cavender,
College LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rhetorical Construction of Media Ecologies
1. Multimedia Moments Old and New
2. Story, Discourse, and Circulation 000
3. Defining the Vocation of the Novel through Narrative Elements
4. Writing Beyond the Media Limit?
5. Negotiating Public and Private Spaces
Coda: Connection through Limits and the Myth of Media Fullness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
