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Copyright by Jason Todd Craft 2004
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Fiction Networks: The Emergence of
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Acknowledgements Many thanks to my
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- “comics universes” and persis
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Grant Morrison and Animal Man .....
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Chapter 1: Fiction Networks This wo
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independent from its manifestation
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espects the prosaics of the phenome
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simple, self-contained and episodic
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America (RIAA) and an American cult
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as a media technology. Even as the
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Beyond that analysis of popular ico
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participation. From the broadest vi
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of reproduction,” to use Andre Ma
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art, and cinema. Comics can be seen
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Everquest on a Midi-tower Windows m
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experience through the interaction
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hire, readers, reception communitie
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conceptual frame,” and that Grams
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inherent in clothing or, by McCrack
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exactly concretized “objects” t
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state of dialectic that does not re
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We tend to think of this serial del
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These “revived romances” and th
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I argue in the fourth chapter of th
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discrete works into a larger, ongoi
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audience; the narrative of Superman
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ecognizable fictional space, that r
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for adolescence, social change, and
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These fiction networks, I would arg
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oaming across the desert floor will
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The Matrix, on the other hand, clea
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illustration of the characteristics
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ideas of intellectual property. Eve
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perspective, they cannot stand alon
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complex, large-scale designed syste
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Again, this argument may present a
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Chapter 2: Genres, Fictional Worlds
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salience or independence that can e
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occur on multiple levels, and can g
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Though Pavel deals with the mythica
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network. The network is both a repr
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While genre in the Bakhtinian frame
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performs a function of representati
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Topical Genres In reading a fiction
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the reader will not only understand
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It also challenges current ludologi
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contest seems inadequate to describ
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making manifested in a fiction. Lik
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experience of persistent world game
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Still, such social structures, howe
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itself: many mythologies of persist
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fictional space consisting currentl
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and creating a new one. That new av
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Fiction networks generate a diversi
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fiction networks, such as Star Wars
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membership in a subset of the commu
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company of both, was that The Sims
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Episode 1: The Phantom Menace as a
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fiction; the space of the persisten
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oth as a canon and as a fictional t
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one’s FSCS is not fully documente
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“Continuity” here not only spea
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fundamental divergences of the pers
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this writer frames the argument out
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These arguments, like any, rest on
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having an infinite number of advent
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they create and share in the value
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understandings of the literary. The
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And we should not be too quick to d
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network is often considered abject,
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emergent: traceable, in retrospect,
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IN CONCLUSION In this dissertation
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correspondence have not yet account
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Darley, Andrew. Visual Digital Cult
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Kosak, Dave "Fargo". The Branded Wo
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Ness, Alexander. Grant Morrison Int
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Suler, John, and W. Phillips. The B
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Vita Jason Todd Craft, the son of J