Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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?
Trade Review"Seminal for transmedia and narratology scholars. . . . A fascinating exploration of new analytical ideas that help explain the power and technique of media collisions now available in modern storytelling."—Kris Baranovic,
Big Muddy"Storyworlds across Media offers a diverse and challenging collection of essays. . . . The collection as a whole abundantly proves that a media-conscious narratology is a must if narrative theory wants to keep up with the times."—Image and Narrative
“Storyworlds across Media fruitfully explores an important new concept in narrative theory—the storyworld—that is of compelling interest across disciplines, from TV writing and popular culture to digital media design and artificial intelligence.”—Janet H. Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
“Storyworlds across Media offers a great deal of insight into the contemporary cultural use of proliferating opportunities (especially in digital media) for innovation in storytelling.”—Richard Walsh, author of Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
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
