The sort of creativity that JonKatz describes and (rightly, at least to my mind) praises, does not strike me as necessarily interactive. After all, writers (and reciters) from Homer on (and probably before) have sometimes played with the frame and structure of their narratives. This includes examples as diverse as Chaucer's tales-within-a-tale format and Luigi Pirandello's creation of a play in the audience's "real" environment.
Are all these efforts necessarily interactive? Certainly, Pirandello's work, like all work that is performed before a live audience, is fully interactive. But is a novel that keeps reminding us it's a novel, while it suggests the reader read the work in order, as interactive as a "Choose-your-own-adventure"?
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The sort of creativity that JonKatz describes and (rightly, at least to my mind) praises, does not strike me as necessarily interactive. After all, writers (and reciters) from Homer on (and probably before) have sometimes played with the frame and structure of their narratives. This includes examples as diverse as Chaucer's tales-within-a-tale format and Luigi Pirandello's creation of a play in the audience's "real" environment. Are all these efforts necessarily interactive? Certainly, Pirandello's work, like all work that is performed before a live audience, is fully interactive. But is a novel that keeps reminding us it's a novel, while it suggests the reader read the work in order, as interactive as a "Choose-your-own-adventure"?