The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories

Zara Dinnen; Robyn Warhol

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories

Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474424752

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Contents

About this book

A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual, and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with senior and emerging scholars.

This is the first anthology to consider what narrative is and what it can do in the wake of various turns in literary studies which have been appearing in the context of digital media and algorithmic capital. From mind-centred and philosophical approaches to theories focusing on gender, race, and sexuality, the chapters touch on poetry, drama, digital games, podcasts, coding, speculative fiction, the law, medical narrative, oral storytelling, and comics as well as the more traditional areas of fiction, TV, and film. This is the future of narrative theory.

Key Features:

Includes popular culture genres (comics, video games, coding) not covered in depth in other companions to narrative theory
Showcases essays on narrative dimensions of law, medical ethics, linguistics, and philosophy as well as more obviously narrative genres
Attention given to race, gender, sexuality distributed throughout the volume, not isolated in a single section
New essays by superstars in narrative theory (Phelan, McHale, Lanser, Richardson, Abbott, Currie) as well as other well respected and emerging scholars

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM H. Porter Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology Marco Caracciolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader Suzanne Keen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. The Fully Extended Mind Karin Kukkonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction Merja Polvinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
II. Situated Narrative Theories
6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith’s Networked Narration Claudia Breger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica Sue J. Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology Susan S. Lanser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives Sam McBean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative Valerie Rohy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
III. Theories of Digital Narrative
11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation Zara Dinnen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability Rob Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative Ellen McCracken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
14. UI Time and the Digital Event Daniel Punday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative
15. Continued Comics: The New ‘Blake and Mortimer’ as an Example of Continuation in European Series Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality Jason Mittell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses Katalin Orbán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is? Sean O’Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study Christian Quendler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories
20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) Stefan Kjerkegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology Brian McHale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama Brian Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative
24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency Mark Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
25. Local Nonfi ctionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington’s Disease in McEwan’s Saturday and Genova’s Inside the O’Briens James Phelan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
26. The Story of the Law Ruth Ronen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett Richard Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative Amy Shuman and Katharine Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 440
Illustrations
- Other: 13 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474424752