Storyworlds across Media
Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Only available on web
About This Book
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 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Storyworlds across Media: Introduction
- Part 1. Mediality and Transmediality
- 1. Story/Worlds/Media
- 2. Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama
- 3. Subjectivity across Media
- 4. Fiction across Media
- 5. Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts
- Part 2. Multimodality and Intermediality
- 6. The Rise of the Multimodal Novel
- 7. On Absent Carrot Sticks
- 8. Film + Comics
- 9. Tell It Like a Game
- 10. Those Insane Dream Sequences
- Part 3. Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Worlds
- 11. Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television
- 12. A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling
- 13. Game of Thrones
- 14. Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction
- 15. The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft
- Contributors
- Index
- About the Editors
- Series List