CRY LOT 49

[Otto]

Literary pedagogy can be thought of as a form of game design, in which 
the teacher transforms a printed text into an interactive fiction by 
locating and devising “puzzles” in the form of interpretative challenges 
for the student to solve. By applying the principles of game design 
while teaching postmodern novels, instructors can draw upon the theories 
and examples of interactivity already associated with interactive 
fiction to enhance their own pedagogical imaginations.
…

The first rule of interactive fiction pedagogy is that the landscape of 
the text is to be imagined as a geographic and conceptual space akin to 
a labyrinth through which students can move in the course of discussions.
…

Transforming printed texts into interactive fictions opens the way for 
possibilities of navigational choice on the part of the reader that 
build upon yet surpass those of hypertext by emphasizing the 
interpretative challenges that must be solved to move freely through the 
text. Hypertext works well as a tool for teaching students how to write 
about postmodern novels, but further technologies and models are 
required to engage students with reading the books themselves on a day 
to day basis within the classroom.

Howard suggests - “heretically” - that one might map the locations in 
The Crying of Lot 49 as one would an interactive fiction, and explore 
the relationship of its geography with its other textures. That novel, 
like Pale Fire, can usefully be approached as one would approach an 
interactive fiction.

Students can be drawn into [postmodern novels] by the same aesthetic 
appeals that brought me to read postmodern fiction through the Gnostics 
in the first place: an aesthetic fascination with mysterious, surreal, 
and cryptic puzzles intimating hidden meaning.
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2006/04/09/cry-lot-49

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