Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice21W.765J, 21L.489J, CMS.845Assignment 5:Read about 100 pages of one of the following works and do the following:- Analyze the non-linear structure of the narrative- How does it engage the reader- What are the textual mechanisms by which the text achieves engagement- Observe your own reading process. How do you get drawn into the narrative?How do you construct the story during the reading process?- Write up a short text (2 pages max.) about your text and post it to BSCWunder Text Comments- Be prepared to report about your text in class.Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio. Translated by John Ciardi. New York: ModernLibrary, 1996.Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking Press, 1966.Calvino, Italo. The Baron in the Trees. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.Calvino, Italo. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. Translated by William Weaver. NewYork: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.Perec, Georges, 1936-1982. 53 Days: A Novel. Edited by Harry Mathews & JacquesRoubaud; translated by David Bellos. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000.Perec, Georges, 1936-1982. A Void. Translated by Gilbert Adair. London: Harvill,1994.Perec, Georges, 1936-1982. Life, a User's Manual. Translated by David Bellos.Boston: D.R. Godine, 1987.Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976. Exercises in Style. Translated by Barbara Wright.New York: New Directions, 1981.Cortázar, Julio. Hopscotch. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. London: Harvill Press,1998.Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822. The life and opinions ofthe Tomcat Murr : together with a fragmentary biography of Kapellmeister JohannesKreisler on random sheets of waste paper. Edited by E.T.A. Hoffmann; translated andannotated by Anthea Bell; with an introduction by Jeremy Adler. London: Penguin,1999.Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Pale Fire: a Novel. New York: Putnam,1962.Danielewski, Mark Z. Mark Z. Danielwski's House of Leaves, by Zampanò; withintroduction and notes by Johnny Truant. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- Ficciones. Edited and with an introduction by AnthonyKerrigan. New York: Grove Press, 1962.Paviç, Milorad. Dictionary of the Khazars: a lexicon novel in 100,000 words.Translated by Christina Pribiçeviç-Zoriç. New York: Knopf, 1988.Paviç, Milorad. Last Love in Constantinople: a Tarot Novel for Divination. Translatedby Christina Pribichevich-Zoriç. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions,
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