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Narrative complexity : cognition, embodiment, evolution
\"Narrative Complexity is an interdisciplinary volume that explores aesthetic, cognitive, and technological aspects of narrative complexity. This volume offers a new conceptual framework for the study of narrative complexity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The handbook of narrative analysis
Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.
* Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework
* Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research
* Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research
* Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page
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Introducing the Staged Narrative Analysis: A Comprehensive Framework to Analyze Multi-Layered and Complex Narrative Data
Building on multi-perspectival research on narratives and responsibility ascriptions in the context of (past) collective violence and repression, I have developed the staged narrative analysis (SNA) to guide the systematic examination of complex and multi-layered narrative data in various research contexts. To introduce SNA in this article, I first discuss its development and then present its two components: 1., a flexible analytical framework to consider the content, structure, and context of storytelling by breaking down the analysis of narratives into the following dimensions: narrator, moment of telling, structure, and stories; and 2., a five-stage analytical procedure to enable an in-depth analysis of individual narratives from different data sources as well as a structured comparison between and across different perspectives. When presenting each of the five stages, i.e., orientation, setting the scene, zooming in, evaluation, and contrasting, I outline the techniques used applying my own empirical data as an example. Finally, I discuss the potential applications and adaptations of the SNA in other studies.
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Deconstructing Greenwashing: Narrative Structures and Ecological Critique in Digital Documentaries
This study examines how greenwashing practices are constructed through narratives built from narrative structures in digital media in the form of the documentary film Greenwashing: The Climate Killer, produced by Seed Documentary. The study aims to uncover and elaborate on the plot, characterization, conflict, and resolution that build or construct a critical narrative of the steps taken by companies associated with “falsehoods” regarding the practice of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To analyze the documentary, the narrative analysis method was chosen, using Tzvetan Todorov’s narrative model. This documentary was selected due to its popularity (7,400 viewers as of April 2025) and the credibility of Seed Documentary, which has consistently served as an independent channel for critically addressing environmental issues. The research findings reveal that the documentary constructs a narrative of resistance through a systematic and dramatic structure, beginning with Equilibrium, Disruption, Recognition, Repairing the Damage, and New Equilibrium. This study is expected to contribute to research on environmental communication and critical digital media within the context of contemporary creative media development. It is also hoped that this study can serve as a medium for conveying messages in climate action amid global environmental uncertainty.
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‘We don't talk about age’: a study of human resources retirement narratives
At the societal and policy level, delaying retirement is generally agreed upon to solve the problem of the increasing proportion of older workers in Sweden, as in many other countries. At the same time, two co-existing narratives that create legitimacy for early versus delayed retirement were found in our study, among both societal- and organisational-level actors. Older workers are viewed as either representatives of productive ageing and a solution to labour shortage problems, or as a barrier to recruiting younger, more promising employees with new skills. Through inductive qualitative analysis, this study shows in what way human resources departments are taking part in the institutional work of maintaining retirement-timing narratives in Swedish workplaces. The existing general organisational narrative of ‘the business case’ is used to mute discussion about delaying the retirement age, except for a select few. Their maintenance of this narrative is supported by the way in which the societal-level narratives target the individual, often backgrounding the role of employers.
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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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