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Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Marie-Laure
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Description for Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Paperback. Explores 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? Editor(s): Ryan, Marie-Laure; Thon, Jan-Noel. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 380 pages, 50 illustrations, 5 tables, 9 diagrams. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
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 Media explores 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 ... Read more
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 Media explores 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Frontiers of Narrative
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803245631
SKU
V9780803245631
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About Marie-Laure
Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory; Narrative as Virtual Reality; and Avatars of Story, as well as the editor of Narrative across Media (Nebraska, 2004), among others. Jan-Noël Thon is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen. Most recently, he has ... Read more
Reviews for Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
"Seminal for transmedia and narratology scholars. . . . A fascinating exploration of new analytical ideas that help explain the power and technique of media collisions now available in modern storytelling."—Kris Baranovic, Big Muddy "Storyworlds across Media offers a diverse and challenging collection of essays. . . . The collection as a whole abundantly proves that a media-conscious narratology is ... Read more