Daniel Punday
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Punday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Punday |
| SIGNATURE | PUNDAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fictionality and Infrastructure
Recent narrative theory has generally treated fictionality as a feature of writing that serves a rhetorical, communicative purpose. This article argues for more attention to the continuities between literary and nonliterary fictionality, such as we encounter in law, contracts, and credit. Drawing on Charles Yu's novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, it explores Clifford Siskin's theory of novelism and work on fictionality and …
Playing at Narratology
Introduction: An Archaeology of Narratology -- Narration, Intrigue, and Reader Positioning in Digital Narrative -- Space across Narrative Media -- UI Time and the Digital Event -- Number and Movement in the Construction of Digital Characters -- Algorithm and Database in Possible Worlds Theory -- Conclusion : Narrative Theory, Play, and Artifact.
Donald Barthelme and the Emergence of the Dynamic Page
The dynamic page has emerged as the basis for contemporary reading in an electronic environment. Donald Barthelme's fiction explores many of the narrative issues raised by the dynamic page even before the widespread adoption of electronic textuality and graphical user interfaces, and can help to resolve debates about the agency of writer and reader in electronic textual environments
The Black Arts Movement and the Genealogy of Multimedia
The American Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s used experience as a critical term by which to challenge existing paradigms of literary value. This essay examines Amiri Baraka's history of Blues as a model for how the Black Arts Movement also links experience and media. It then applies that model to his poetry, as well as other Black Arts Movement work, including the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. It concludes that the Black Arts Movement's d…
John Barth's Occasional Writing
Research Article| September 01 2005 John Barth's Occasional Writing: The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book Daniel Punday Daniel Punday Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 591–619. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Punday; John Barth's Occasional Writ…
Creative Accounting
Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based on possible-world models. In both, emphasis is placed on the objects that make up this world. In role-playing games and recent theories of fictional world, this essay ar…
Involvement, Interruption, and Inevitability
Of all of the possibilities suggested by the nascent genre of electronic writing, the idea that online or electronic media may provide a new way of telling stories has met with the most interest and suspicion. When artists, critics, and program developers debate the potential for electronic media to transcend the narrow appeal of quick-response ("twitch") video games or the pragmatic search features of a CD-ROM-based encyclopedia, they ask whethe…
Derrida in the World
Derrida in the World: Space and Post-Deconstructive Textual Analysis Daniel Punday “It is therefore the game of the world that must be first thought; before attempting to understand all the forms of play in the world.” —Of Grammatology In the wake of deconstruction, critics have sought some way to reconcile poststructural textual analytics with a concern for political and cultural issues. The broad dissemination of Jean-François Lyotard’s notion …
Foucault's Body Tropes
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2000
Meaning in postmodern worlds
Creative Accounting
Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based on possible-world models. In both, emphasis is placed on the objects that make up this world. In role-playing games and recent theories of fictional world, this essay ar…
Foucault's Body Tropes
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2000
Meaning in postmodern worlds
Derrida in the World
Derrida in the World: Space and Post-Deconstructive Textual Analysis Daniel Punday “It is therefore the game of the world that must be first thought; before attempting to understand all the forms of play in the world.” —Of Grammatology In the wake of deconstruction, critics have sought some way to reconcile poststructural textual analytics with a concern for political and cultural issues. The broad dissemination of Jean-François Lyotard’s notion …
Foucault's Body Tropes
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2000
Involvement, Interruption, and Inevitability
Of all of the possibilities suggested by the nascent genre of electronic writing, the idea that online or electronic media may provide a new way of telling stories has met with the most interest and suspicion. When artists, critics, and program developers debate the potential for electronic media to transcend the narrow appeal of quick-response ("twitch") video games or the pragmatic search features of a CD-ROM-based encyclopedia, they ask whethe…
John Barth's Occasional Writing
Research Article| September 01 2005 John Barth's Occasional Writing: The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book Daniel Punday Daniel Punday Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 591–619. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Punday; John Barth's Occasional Writ…
Creative Accounting
Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based on possible-world models. In both, emphasis is placed on the objects that make up this world. In role-playing games and recent theories of fictional world, this essay ar…
The Black Arts Movement and the Genealogy of Multimedia
The American Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s used experience as a critical term by which to challenge existing paradigms of literary value. This essay examines Amiri Baraka's history of Blues as a model for how the Black Arts Movement also links experience and media. It then applies that model to his poetry, as well as other Black Arts Movement work, including the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. It concludes that the Black Arts Movement's d…
Donald Barthelme and the Emergence of the Dynamic Page
The dynamic page has emerged as the basis for contemporary reading in an electronic environment. Donald Barthelme's fiction explores many of the narrative issues raised by the dynamic page even before the widespread adoption of electronic textuality and graphical user interfaces, and can help to resolve debates about the agency of writer and reader in electronic textual environments
Playing at Narratology
Introduction: An Archaeology of Narratology -- Narration, Intrigue, and Reader Positioning in Digital Narrative -- Space across Narrative Media -- UI Time and the Digital Event -- Number and Movement in the Construction of Digital Characters -- Algorithm and Database in Possible Worlds Theory -- Conclusion : Narrative Theory, Play, and Artifact.
Fictionality and Infrastructure
Recent narrative theory has generally treated fictionality as a feature of writing that serves a rhetorical, communicative purpose. This article argues for more attention to the continuities between literary and nonliterary fictionality, such as we encounter in law, contracts, and credit. Drawing on Charles Yu's novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, it explores Clifford Siskin's theory of novelism and work on fictionality and …
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