List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Mind-centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative; 1. H. Porter Abbott, ‘What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM’; 2. Marco Caracciolo, ‘The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology’; 3. Suzanne Keen, ‘Narrative and the Embodied Reader’; 4. Karin Kukkonen, ‘The Fully Extended Mind’; 5. Merja Polvinen, ‘Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction’; Part II. Situated Narrative Theories; 6. Claudia Breger, ‘Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith’s Networked Narration’; 7. Sue J. Km, ‘Race and Empathy in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica’; 8. Susan S. Lanser, ‘Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology’; 9. Sam McBean, ‘Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives’; 10. Valerie Rohy, ‘The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative’; Part III. Theories of Digital Narrative; 11. Zara Dinnen, ‘Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation’; 12. Rob Gallagher, ‘Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability’; 13. Ellen McCracken, ‘Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative’; 14. Daniel Punday, ‘UI Time and the Digital Event’; Part IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative; 15. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey, ‘Continued Comics: The 'New Blake and Mortimer’ as an Example of Continuation in European Series’; 16. Jason Mittell, ‘Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality’; 17. Katalin Orbán, ‘Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses’; 18. Sean O’Sullivan, ‘Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?’; 19. Christian Quendler, ‘Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study’; Part V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories; 20. Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin, ‘Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative’; 21. Stefan Kjerkegaard, ‘Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014)’; 22. Brian McHale, ‘Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology’; 23. Brian Richardson, ‘Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama’; Part VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative; 24. Mark Currie, ‘Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency’; 25. James Phelan, ‘Local Nonfictionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington’s Disease in McEwan’s Saturday and Genova’s Inside the O’Briens’; 26. Ruth Ronen, ‘The Story of the Law’; 27. Richard Walsh, ‘The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett’; 28. Amy Shuman and Katharine Young, ‘The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative’.