English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interactive Fiction, Multilinear Map, Rhizome

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Christopher Keep

Document Summary

Author has most control and reader has very little/no control. The author codes everything but the reader has the control. Reader has the maximum control: the unity of time: the action depicted in the play should take place during a single play. In relation to stories there is one timeline: the unity of space: the action depicted in the play should take place in a single location. In relation to stories all locations need to work together to make a story: the unity of action: all action within the play was to be directed towards a single overarching idea. Discourse-driven narratives is a like a mind-map. Narrative meaning presupposes the linearity and unidirectional of time, logic, and causality, while a system of choices involves a nonlinear or multilinear branching structure, such as, a rhizome, or a network . Top-down and bottom-up refer to the author-reader relationship.