Submitted by Katie on Sat, 04/12/2008 - 12:38.
Cathy's Book was kind of cute, I mean don't get me wrong, I enjoy angsty narcissistic teenage girl fiction as much as the next person, but as far as it qualifying as an ARG, I believe that it's sort of like a hybrid between standard literary narrative and an ARG. The book as a discourse contains a relatively linear story with characters, plot, etc., all of the components for a narrative. The addition of the extra clues, or "kernels" and "satellites" if we're applying Chatman's terminology, make the story ARG-esque, but it doesn't actually meet the criteria of an ARG. read more »
