On writing instability

Abba, Tom

Abstract

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses work inside and outside of the core programme to demonstrate the ways in which immersive literature operates. The main body of the chapter explores writing Ambient Literature from the conception of a work to its reception. A forthcoming work - From Bitter Ground - is used to show how each of the poetic elements are employed in order to produce a genuinely affective narrative composition, native to the medium in which it is being written and read.

• Online Publication Date: Dec 12, 2024
• Publication Date: Dec 12, 2024
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 13, 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Book Title: Ambient Stories in Practice and Research: Digital Writing in Place
• ISBN: 9781350234130
• Keywords: Narrative, design, immersion, poetics, ambient literature, media-specificity, composition
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10775103
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ambient-stories-in-practice-and-research-9781350234130/
• Contract Date: Apr 3, 2023