tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824706373403168773.post5975743347863825909..comments2024-02-14T03:14:02.948-07:00Comments on New Media Narratives: Culture and the bookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824706373403168773.post-34380498423257893542011-02-02T11:50:38.623-07:002011-02-02T11:50:38.623-07:00Carolyn, you say: "The printed book is struct...Carolyn, you say: "The printed book is structured,the author moves the reader through a linear process". I'm wondering where you see books like Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler which seems to really be a collection of unfinished stories or perhaps John Barth's short stories about reading and writing which are very self-referential..or Julio Cortazar, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Federman to name but a few. I suppose I'm really wondering if we can say that print is linear...or that any kind of reading is linear (especially if we think of reader response theories). What do you think? <br /><br />Are there other examples?Dr. Jessica Laccettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820510348273741004noreply@blogger.com