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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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Acknowledgments
Storyworlds across Media: Introduction
Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon
Part I. Mediality and Transmediality
1. Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology
Marie-Laure Ryan
2. Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama: Selection, Time, and Construal in the Discourse of Hamlet
Patrick Colm Hogan
3. Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective Representation in Contemporary Feature Films, Graphic Novels, and Computer Games
Jan-Noël Thon
4. Fiction across Media: Toward a Transmedial Concept of Fictionality
Frank Zipfel
5. Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts
Werner Wolf
Part II: Multimodality and Intermediality
6. The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological Implications
Wolfgang Hallet
7. On Absent Carrot Sticks: The Level of Abstraction in Video Games
Jesper Juul
8. Film + Comics: A Multimodal Romance in the Age of Transmedial Convergence
Jared Gardner
9. Tell It Like a Game: Scott Pilgrim and Performative Media Rivalry
Jeff Thoss
10. Those Insane Dream Sequences: Experientiality and Distorted Experience in Literature and Video Games
Marco Caracciolo
Part III: Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Worlds
11. Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television
Jason Mittell
12. A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling
Colin B. Harvey
13. Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming
Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca
14. Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction: The Storyworld of The Vampire Diaries
Maria Lindgren Leavenworth
15. The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft
Van Leavenworth
Contributors
Index
About the author
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 coedited From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative.
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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?
