Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds

ISBN-13: 9781138547735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 314 str.

Mari Hatavara; Matti Hyvarinen; Maria Makela

Opis

Providing new openings for transdisciplinary narrative theory, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, visiting literature, digital games, TV, music, and more. It addresses interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific developments. Minds and worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting narratives as essays ask how story-internal minds relate to the mind external to the storyworld. Promoting knowledge on the latest forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative, this book contributes to fields including literary studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.

Spis treści

Introduction: Minds in Action, Interpretive Traditions in Interaction  Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, and Frans Mäyrä  Section I  1. Texts, Worlds, Stories: Narrative Worlds as Cognitive and Ontological Concept  Marie-Laure Ryan  2. Storyworlds and Paradoxical Narration: Putting Classifications to a Transmedial Test  Liviu Lutas  3 The Charge against Classical and Post-Classical Narratologies’ "Epistemic" Approach to Literary Fiction  Greger Andersson  Section II  4. How You Emerge from This Game Is up to You: Agency, Positioning, and Narrativity in The Mass Effect Trilogy  Hanna-Riikka Roine  5. Playing the Worlds of Prom Week  Ben Samuel, Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Mike Treanor, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh McCoy, Aaron Reed, and Michael Mateas  6. Scripting Beloved Discomfort: Narratives, Fantasies, and Authenticity in Online Sadomasochism  J. Tuomas Harviainen  7. Storyworld in Text-Messages: Sequentiality and Spatialisation  Agnieszka Lyons  Section III  8. Defending the Private and the Unnarratable: Doomed Attempts to Read and Write Literary and Cinematic Minds in Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle  Tytti Rantanen  9. Of Minds and Monsters: the Eventfulness of Monstrosity and the Poetics of Immersion in Horror Literature  Gero Brümmer  10. Narrative Conventions in Hallucinatory Narratives  Tommi Kakko  11. Narrative and Minds in the Traditional Ballads of Early Country Music  Alan Palmer  Section IV  12. Mind Reading, Mind Guessing, or Mental-State Attribution? The Puzzle of John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning  Matti Hyvärinen  13 Mind as World in the Reality Game Show Survivor  Maria Mäkelä  14 Performing Selves and Audience Design: Interview Narratives on the Internet  Jarmila Mildorf  15 Documenting Everyday Life: Mind Representation in the Web Exhibition "A Finnish Winter Day"  Mari Hatavara  Afterword: A New Normal?  Brian McHale