Kübertekstiteooria ja laiendatud narratoloogia
Cybertext theory and expanded narratology

Summary/Abstract: Cybertext theory and expanded narratology combines Espen Aarseth’s typology and textonomy of cybertexts with classic narratology (as systematized by Gérard Genette, Seymour Chatman and Gerald Prince) while also taking into account two other advanced late 20th century models of narrativity, fiction and textuality: the constructions of postmodernism by Brian McHale, and the combinatory and constrictive practices of the OuLiPo as described by Marcel Bénabou. Even though cybertext theory doesn’t build essential barriers between textual media, it is still clear that almost all the knowledge we can gain from traditional literary studies is based on literary objects that are static, intransient, determinate, impersonal, random access, solely interpretative and without links. Narratology is no exception and therefore it is ready to be transformed, expanded, and modified by cybertext theory in order to be able to come to terms with narrative possibilities and practices inherent in new media objects that are behaving contrary to the presuppositions of the current state of art literary theories.

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