Narrative Theory, Literature, And New Media: Narrative Minds And Virtual Worlds (routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Literature)
by Mari Hatavara /
2015 / English / PDF
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Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book
investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media,
from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online
sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to
hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of contemporary
narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific
developments: what kind of a construction is a storyworld, and
what kind of mental functioning can be embedded in it? Minds and
worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting
narratives as the book asks how story-internal minds relate to
the mind external to the storyworld, that is, the mind processing
the story. With essays from social scientists, literary scholars,
linguists, and scholars from interactive media studies answering
these topical questions, the collection brings diverse
disciplines into dialogue, providing new openings for genuinely
transdisciplinary narrative theory. The wide-ranging selection of
materials analyzed in the book promotes knowledge on the latest
forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative,
necessary for navigating the contemporary, mediatized cultural
landscape. The combination of theoretical reflection and
empirical analysis makes this book an invaluable resource for
scholars and advanced students in fields including literary
studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.
Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book
investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media,
from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online
sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to
hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of contemporary
narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific
developments: what kind of a construction is a storyworld, and
what kind of mental functioning can be embedded in it? Minds and
worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting
narratives as the book asks how story-internal minds relate to
the mind external to the storyworld, that is, the mind processing
the story. With essays from social scientists, literary scholars,
linguists, and scholars from interactive media studies answering
these topical questions, the collection brings diverse
disciplines into dialogue, providing new openings for genuinely
transdisciplinary narrative theory. The wide-ranging selection of
materials analyzed in the book promotes knowledge on the latest
forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative,
necessary for navigating the contemporary, mediatized cultural
landscape. The combination of theoretical reflection and
empirical analysis makes this book an invaluable resource for
scholars and advanced students in fields including literary
studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.