In Maria Gerhardt’s autobiographical novel, Transfer Window (orig. Transfervindue, 2017), which is set in a fictionalized hospice universe and revolves around Gerhardt’s experience of being a terminal patient, the ...

The editorial introduction shows the richness of traditional literary genres (fictional and non-fictional), new cultural practices (digital literature, games, and playable media) in which second-person address may be ...

Ever since the 1970s, if not before, second-person narration has been used as an alternative storytelling format in auto/biography to expand the narrative possibilities of engaging with one’s own or someone else’s life. ...

This paper presents a correlation between second-person narration and the more-than -human perspectivity in animal narratives. The analysis focuses on representations of “you” narration in Andrzej Zaniewski’s novel Rat, ...

This article focuses on an analysis of the function of the second-person narrative in digital fictional games. It combines two research fields: game narratology and biopolitical philosophy. The article begins with a brief ...

Russian Formalism’s suggestion that artistic literature makes the familiar strange finds echoes in today’s theories of “unnatural narrative.” “Naturalization” of seemingly strange texts understands uncanny literary effects ...

This article is an analysis of Paweł Paliński’s novel Polaroidy z zagłady (Polaroids from Doom) in the context of its use of second-person narrative. Paliński’s work describes a post-apocalyptic world where people have ...

The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of using the second-person narrative in tabletop role-playing games. Despite its ambiguous status in literary projects, the dyadic narrative is the basic component of ...

This essay builds upon David Herman’s idea of double deixis to explore the ‘choose-yourown- adventure’ (CYOA) form as a popular subtype of you-narration that foregrounds reader involvement, co-creation, and agency. The ...