Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Mari Hatavara and Matti Hyvärinen and Maria Mäkelä and Frans Mäyrä

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 314 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317524618
Related ISBNs:: 9781138547735, 9781315722313, 9781138854147
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/23/22
Copyrighted By:: Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, Frans Mäyrä
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mari Hatavara
Edited by:: Matti Hyvärinen
Edited by:: Maria Mäkelä
Edited by:: Frans Mäyrä