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Storyworlds across Media
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media-everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games-is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society.Storyworlds across Mediaexplores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?
The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate.
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Possible worlds theory and contemporary narratology
\"An update to possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology, 'Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology' offers advancements to this theoretical framework and a range of contemporary applications to literary narratives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Johns Hopkins guide to digital media
The first systematic, comprehensive reference covering the ideas, genres, and concepts behind digital media.
The study of what is collectively labeled \"New Media\"—the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology—has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field, with many universities now offering it as a major. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media is the first comprehensive reference work to which teachers, students, and the curious can quickly turn for reliable information on the key terms and concepts of the field.
The contributors present entries on nearly 150 ideas, genres, and theoretical concepts that have allowed digital media to produce some of the most innovative intellectual, artistic, and social practices of our time. The result is an easy-to-consult reference for digital media scholars or anyone wishing to become familiar with this fast-developing field.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change.However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.
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Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative
Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote,
and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding
how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how
narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally
been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study
argues that space serves important but under-explored narrative
roles: It can be a focus of attention, a bearer of symbolic
meaning, an object of emotional investment, a means of strategic
planning, a principle of organization, and a supporting medium.
Space intersects with narrative in two principal ways: ''Narrating
space'' considers space as an object of representation, while
''spatializing narrative'' approaches space as the environment in
which narrative is physically deployed. The inscription of
narrative in real space is illustrated by such forms as
technology-supported locative narratives, street names, and
historical/heritage site and museum displays. While narratologists
are best equipped to deal with the narration of space, geographers
can make significant contributions to narratology by drawing
attention to the spatialization of narrative. By bringing these two
approaches together-and thereby building a bridge between
narratology and geography- Narrating Space / Spatializing
Narrative yields both a deepened understanding of human
spatial experience and greater insight into narrative theory and
poetic forms.
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Intermediality and Storytelling
The 'narrative turn' in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the 'medial turn' in narratology.Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs.
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Avatars of Story
Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms, revealing how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars. Ryan considers texts such as the reality television show Survivor, the film The Truman Show, and software-driven hypertext fiction, and anticipates the time when media will provide new ways to experience stories.
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