Meanings
plural compunovels
- A form of hyperfiction or interactive fiction intended to be the computerized equivalent of a traditional novel.
The most extreme example I can think of in art is, perhaps, “interactive fiction” or computerized, participatory “compunovels.”
2003, Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, page 771 more example
[…] it privileges philosophically oriented theory, disregarding popular forms such as, in the present case, anonymous and collective modes of authorship typical of TV, cinema, advertising, street ballads, and compunovels.
2014, Vincent Leitch, Theory Matters, page 37
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