It seems that the emergently popular world of electronic literature has provided readers with a possible solution to this issue of control. Interactive fiction provides the reader with something they never really had with print: agency. Take, for example, a work like Emily Short’s Galatea. This work is written entirely in second person, a formContinue reading “Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 2 of 2)”
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Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 1 of 2)
David Sedaris, the author of such acclaimed collections as Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, was quoted during an interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal as saying, “Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their ownContinue reading “Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 1 of 2)”