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All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence

Evan Donahue
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575049
Published: 01 June 2023
... abandoned, AI researchers have recently called for their return, this time borrowing from the literary genre of interactive fiction, whose forms and conventions they might use to represent the world in text for the purpose of teaching machines to speak. This confluence of literary form and scientific method...
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Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba : Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the “American Jules Verne”

Nathaniel Williams
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 279–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266063
Published: 01 June 2011
... in Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba (1895), a novel that presents Reade Jr. aiding the Cuban revolution against Spain and interacting with fictionalized portrayals of Cuban patriots Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo. By applying the Reade novels' narrative formula to create an overtly political text valorizing...
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Thinking with Robots

Lindsay Thomas
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 381–395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575162
Published: 01 June 2023
... virtual worlds (originally multiuser dimensions or dungeons ), or MUDs. Popular in the 1980s and 1990s, MUDs combined elements of role-playing games, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players learned about the virtual world by reading descriptions of rooms, other players, and objects...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation

Josef Nguyen
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697001
Published: 01 March 2022
...Josef Nguyen Abstract This article considers the cultural politics of frustrated potential for diverse representation in games by examining developer comments on the 1995 digital game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream , adapted from Harlan Ellison’s 1967 science fiction story of the same name...
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Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction

David M. Higgins
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266081
Published: 01 June 2011
... they function in a breathing world of people, events, conflicts, and social interactions. Furthermore, fiction offers science fiction authors a dynamic labora- tory where trial and error can produce conceptual leaps. Le Guin does not arrive at the idea of the Ekumen fully formed; it develops, instead...
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Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Andrew Epstein
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 815–817.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8781055
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and the interactions between the two (3). Katie Owens-Murphy’s more formalist approach provides a new way to understand the rhetorical devices and stylistic challenges of modernist and contemporary fiction by arguing that twentieth-century American novels have “far more in common with lyric poems than...
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“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope in Red Dead Redemption 2

Katrina Marks
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697043
Published: 01 March 2022
... with historically and geographically racialized others through a fugitive relationship to space. While Rockstar, as a video game studio, may not see itself explicitly intervening in a racialized and racializing political imaginary in its fictional worldbuilding, the kinesthetic, narrative, and cartographic...
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The Game Theory of Sex

Arthur Z. Wang
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697015
Published: 01 March 2022
... ), in an astounding archaeology of the concept of play in French theory, uncovers a foundational interaction between Jacques Lacan and American game theory. Similarly, we can find in Gallagher’s indirect citation a hint of how game theory structures our understanding of the credit we extend to fictions, and how we...
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Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America; Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America; Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction

Dana D. Nelson
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-073
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility; Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

Victor Román Mendoza
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 215–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-080
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe; Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet

Kenneth M. Roemer
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 223–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-083
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature; Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography; Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835

Crystal J. Lucky
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 185–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-068
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing

Andy Doolen
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-069
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

Elizabeth Freeman
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-070
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity; Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-071
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
View articletitled, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity; Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel View PDF for article titled, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity; Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic; Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862; Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor

Elizabeth Young
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-072
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
View articletitled, Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic; Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862; Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor View PDF for article titled, Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic; Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862; Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor
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Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality; Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Stephanie A. Smith
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-074
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans; Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery

Daniel Kim
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 203–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-075
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing; Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Kimberly Lamm
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 205–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-076
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary; Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science; The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism

Brian M. Reed
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 208–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-077
Published: 01 March 2011
... born” and dependent on properly executed code; she includes in her field survey such genres as “hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, ‘codework,’ generative art, and the Flash poem,” a list she admits is “by no means . . . exhaustive...
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