Avatar, Identification, Pornography [by John Frow, with responses from Tony Bennett and Stephen Muecke] | Cultural Studies Review

On Noise

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Published: Nov 11, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v18i3.2853

Keywords:

Fictional character, digital gaming, avatars, pornography

Katrina Schlunke (intro.)

University of Technology, Sydney

John Frow

University of Melbourne

Tony Bennett

University of Western Sydney

Stephen Muecke

University of New South Wales

Abstract

Fictional character is textually constructed in the play between positions of enunciation and figural constructs in the storyworld, and these positions are cumulatively and complexly filled during the course of a prose narrative or a lyric or a film or gameplay. This article explores that work through a discussion of the role of avatars in digital gaming and of the inscription of the reader or viewer into pornography.

Issue

Vol 18 No 3 (2012): On Noise

Section

Saluting John Frow: Reading, Writing and Identification (Peer Reviewed)

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