{"product_id":"narrative-complexity-9780803296862","title":"Narrative Complexity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches to complexity, this book takes a step toward establishing the interdisciplinary field of complex narrative studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eNarrative Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e] is a volume that feels very well curated by its editors in that it achieves a true multi-disciplinarity: not only by addressing a multitude of narrative media, practices, and technologies but also by fostering a truly diverse set of ways to think about complexity.\"—Steven Willemsen, \u003ci\u003eProjections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grishakova . . . and Poulaki . . . bring forward prominent scholars from around the world who offer vision and new theoretical frameworks regarding narrative studies. Contributors investigate narrative complexity from varying interdisciplinary viewpoints, including sense-making via mind-body engagement and social\/cultural environments via technology and media. . . . The examinations of narratives in multiple emerging media contexts alone make this a worthy read.\"—K. L. Majocha, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps it is obvious that narrative—a communicative act stretching across potentially every aspect of human experience—is a complex process, but the discussion of the variable nature of that complexity as demonstrated in this volume is worth considering at length.\"—Daniel Peretti, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Encyclopedic in scope, \u003ci\u003eNarrative Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e surveys a dazzling variety of genres, media forms, and theories about complexity, including artistic, literary, and scientific examples. Contributions by many eminent narratologists make this an invaluable work and essential reading for anyone interested in how the conjunction of narrative and complexity can be configured and interrogated. Kudos to the editors for introducing and assembling this remarkable collection.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of \u003ci\u003eUnthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Challenging the distinction between ‘simplicity’ as primary and primordial and ‘complexity’ as secondary and derived from simplicity, these far-ranging studies make the case that human cultures and minds are inherently complex. They are indeterminate and uncertain. This holds particularly true for narrative discourse, which is at the heart of culture and mind. Understanding \u003ci\u003ehomo narrans\u003c\/i\u003e means understanding the human being in the world in its most complex forms. As a consequence, narrative studies have to refine their intellectual instruments—conceptually, empirically, hermeneutically—in the ways impressively explored in this volume.”—Jens Brockmeier, professor of psychology at the American University of Paris\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“This volume opens a new window on the emergence of narratology within the context of complexity theory. In contrast to its phase of pluralization in the form of diverse models and paradigms, narratology, by turning to complex phenomena such as self-organization, nonlinearity, recursion, and nonhierarchical relations in various media, is exploring new domains where the interactions between embodied cognition and social and cultural embeddedness are redefining the contours of narrative. \u003ci\u003eNarrative Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to the repositioning of the ‘conditions of possibility’ of narratology.”—John Pier, University of Tours and CRAL (CNRS), Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Narrative Complexity\u003cbr\u003e Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Narrative Complexity and Media\u003cbr\u003e 1. Narrative as\/and Complex System\/s\u003cbr\u003e Marie-Laure Ryan\u003cbr\u003e 2. Caution, Simulation Ahead: Complexity and Digital Narrativity\u003cbr\u003e David Ciccoricco and David Large\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Wave-Crest: Narrative Complexity and Locative Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Emma Whittaker\u003cbr\u003e 4. Complexity and the Userly Text\u003cbr\u003e Noam Knoller\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Complexity of Informative Autobiographies\u003cbr\u003e Ulrik Ekman\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Cognition and Narrative Comprehension\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sources of Complexity in Narrative Comprehension across Media\u003cbr\u003e Joseph P. Magliano, Karyn Higgs, and James Clinton\u003cbr\u003e 7. Structural Complexity in Visual Narratives: Theory, Brains, and Cross-Cultural Diversity\u003cbr\u003e Neil Cohn\u003cbr\u003e 8. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies\u003cbr\u003e James E. Cutting\u003cbr\u003e 9. Heteronomy of Narrative: Language Complexity and Computer Simplicity\u003cbr\u003e Hamid R. Ekbia\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Experience, Subjectivity, and Embodied Complexity\u003cbr\u003e 10. Narrative Here-Now\u003cbr\u003e Mieke Bal\u003cbr\u003e 11. Body Forth in Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Ellen J. Esrock\u003cbr\u003e 12. Between Distancing and Immersion: The Body in Complex Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Maria Poulaki\u003cbr\u003e 13. Intersubjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, and Narrative Deixis: A Neurocinematic Approach\u003cbr\u003e Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen\u003cbr\u003e 14. Jazz as Narrative: Narrating Cognitive Processes Involved in Jazz Improvisation\u003cbr\u003e Martin E. Rosenberg\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Narrative Complexity and Cultural Evolution\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Predictive Mind, Attention, and Cultural Evolution: A New Perspective on Narrative Dynamics\u003cbr\u003e Marina Grishakova\u003cbr\u003e 16. Necessary Fictions: Supernormal Cues, Complex Cognition, and the Nature of Fictional Narrative\u003cbr\u003e James Carney\u003cbr\u003e 17. In Hindsight: Complexity, Contingency, and Narrative Mapping\u003cbr\u003e José Angel García Landa\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405302145367,"sku":"9780803296862","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803296862.jpg?v=1730489635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narrative-complexity-9780803296862","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}