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The Edinburgh companion to contemporary narrative theories / edited by Zara Dinnen, Robyn Warhol.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edinburgh companions to literaturePublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2018Description: xiv, 425 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781474424745
Other title:
  • Contemporary narrative theories
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 808.036 DIN
Contents:
Intro; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative; 1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM; 2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology; 3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader; 4. The Fully Extended Mind; 5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction; II. Situated Narrative Theories; 6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith's Networked Narration; 7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran's Vietnamerica.
8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology: 9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives; 10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative; III. Theories of Digital Narrative; 11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation; 12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability; 13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative; 14. UI Time and the Digital Event; IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative; 15. Continued Comics: The New 'Blake and Mortimer' as an Example of Continuation in European Series.
16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses; 18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?; 19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study; V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories; 20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative; 21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014); 22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology; 23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama.
VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency; 25. Local Nonfictionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington's Disease in McEwan's Saturday and Genova's Inside the O'Briens; 26. The Story of the Law; 27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett; 28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative; Index.
Summary: "A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become, the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with senior and emerging scholars. This is the first anthology to consider what narrative is and what it can do in the wake of various turns in literary studies which have been appearing in the context of digital media and algorithmic capital. From mind-centered and philosophical approaches to theories focusing on gender, race and sexuality, the chapters touch on poetry, drama, digital games, podcasts, coding, speculative fiction, the law, medical narrative, oral storytelling and comics as well as the more traditional areas of fiction, TV and film. This is the future of narrative theory" - Provided by publisher.
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Intro; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative; 1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM; 2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology; 3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader; 4. The Fully Extended Mind; 5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction; II. Situated Narrative Theories; 6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith's Networked Narration; 7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran's Vietnamerica.

8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology: 9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives; 10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative; III. Theories of Digital Narrative; 11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation; 12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability; 13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative; 14. UI Time and the Digital Event; IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative; 15. Continued Comics: The New 'Blake and Mortimer' as an Example of Continuation in European Series.

16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses; 18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?; 19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study; V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories; 20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative; 21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014); 22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology; 23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama.

VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency; 25. Local Nonfictionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington's Disease in McEwan's Saturday and Genova's Inside the O'Briens; 26. The Story of the Law; 27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett; 28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative; Index.

"A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become, the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with senior and emerging scholars. This is the first anthology to consider what narrative is and what it can do in the wake of various turns in literary studies which have been appearing in the context of digital media and algorithmic capital. From mind-centered and philosophical approaches to theories focusing on gender, race and sexuality, the chapters touch on poetry, drama, digital games, podcasts, coding, speculative fiction, the law, medical narrative, oral storytelling and comics as well as the more traditional areas of fiction, TV and film. This is the future of narrative theory" - Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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