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As
its title should tell the paper tries to solve or
at least complicate six specific problems. First,
as narratives are supposed to be transmedial how
should we extend literary narratology beyond its
print heritage? Second and thirdly, in addition to
various narrative and would-be-narrative
constellations and devices also the relations
between texts and the text's relation to itself
have changed. Fourthly, all these changes have
their bearing on the role of the reader in the
situation where the lack of conventions is well
matched with the outdated expectations concerning
narratives, texts and transtextuality. Fifthly,
enter playability and the fear of variety when
readers and scholars should perhaps be willing to
give up the idea of literary wholes and try to
pursue happiness in the form of parts, phases and
playthings. Sixthly, we'll try to shed some
ludological light into the recent trend of building
textual instruments and instrumental
texts.
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