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37 – Buckles – Interactive Fiction

Game Studies Study Buddies

CHAPTER

The Gaps in the Novel Work

Cameron: Easter talks about his kind of neurotology theory of the novel work. The idea of the gap, which is those details that are never finalized within a story. And because all you need is one reader to kind of like hit a detail that is ambiguous in some way and they can spin out an entirely new interpretation of the story that is happening. For buckles, if big kind of innovation here is that it closes the loop. So the author has their account, their writing and kind of their imaginary universe. And then that links up with the reader's imaginary universe, which is also called for buckles the super story.

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