"Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw is an animated interactive graphic based on the historical story of Christian Shaw and her demonic possession. Set in 1696 amongst the witch trials, this project explores new ways of experiencing a story — harnessing the allure of mystery and uneasy tensions and plucking the participant's sense of social responsibility." -- From Author description, Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Experiencing the Work
Visitors will click "begin" to open the work in a new window with an image in the upper left corner. Clicking this image will open a new window with the Ruffle "play" button, which begins the experience. As an animated interactive piece, some of the content is only on the screen for a relatively short time. The work requires cursor movement and clicking; it is not navigable by keyboard or similar non-mouse tools. Interacting with key graphical and textual elements of the work require fine control as many of these objects are quite small.
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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Published in January, 2006 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
PUBLICATION TYPE
Anthology
COPY MEDIA FORMAT
Web
ORIGINAL URL
https://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/leishman__deviant_the_possession_of_christian_shaw.htmlPublished in January, 2007 by The Iowa Review Web in Volume 9, Issue 1.
This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Lynne Nugent at the Iowa Review in Summer 2016.
PUBLICATION TYPE
Journal
COPY MEDIA FORMAT
Web