Digital Fictions: Storytelling in a Material World

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Summary: A New Genre
Review: Sarah Sloane has distinguished herself for over a decade through her original and finely-written scholarship on composition studies and rhetoric. This book, though, takes research in reading and writing to a new and better place--one that houses imagination as well as sharp thinking. *Digital Fictions* is like no other academic book I have ever read: It's stunningly written (as good and as stylish as a novel), meticulously and exhaustively researched, innovative in its thinking, and bold in the positions it takes on, among other issues, the roles of gender, sexuality, and class in writing and reading electronic texts. In addition to cutting-edge scholarship, Sloane's book contains her own poems, fashioned to each chapter, as well as personal reflections on her own "location" as a writer and reader. (The chapter "Foxes in Space" is funny as well as illuminating, a rare combination in a book that's also so intellectually challenging.) *Digital Fictions* should be required reading in college classes; it's a perfect example of clear, reasoned thinking expressed in flawless prose, and it adds invaluable insight to the field of textual studies. It's academic work at its best.

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Summary: Deeply Moving Book
Review: the author portrays the main character in such a manner it is moving. the book was really good, and well worth the money!