Interactive Fiction

Scientific Essay from the year 1997 in the subject German Studies - Genres Kyoto Sangyo University (Japanese Society for Germanistics) course: Yearly Congress of the japanese german organization Tokio 11.5.1996 language: English abstract: We see that in interactive literature the danger lies less in interactivity as such but rather in the simultaneity of heterogeneous input it allows. As strata-poetics has taught us our reading experience is always an intensely interactive one. We contribute more to it than we aware of. More precisely: the characteristic experience of literature (especially of poesy) is not possible without intense interactivity between author and reader. It is the simultaneity of various heterogeneous and often contradictory reader-contributions not inspired by the work itself but by the willfulness of the readers which cast the Internet Story in doubt as a valid literary genre.