The Storyworld Accord

Erin James

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• "Storyworlds," mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Nar... Lees meer

The Cruft of Fiction

David Letzler

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, ha... Lees meer

The Imagined Moment

Inderjeet Mani

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this g... Lees meer

Stories and Minds

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered... Lees meer

The Narrator

Sylvie Patron

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• The narrator (the answer to the question "who speaks in the text?") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even t... Lees meer

The Emergence of Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• From Chaucer's Pardoner to Eliot's Edward Casaubon, from Behn's Oroonoko to Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway--the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memor... Lees meer

New Narratives

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storyt... Lees meer

Fictional Dialogue

Bronwen Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialog... Lees meer

Imagining Kashmir

Patrick Colm Hogan

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir--a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja--became a hotly disputed territory. Di... Lees meer

Pseudo-Memoirs

Rochelle Tobias

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming rea... Lees meer

Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture

Jan-Noël Thon

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely tr... Lees meer

Mediated Narration in the Digital Age

Peter Joseph Gloviczki

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Mediated Narration in the Digital Age examines mediated narration from 1991 through 2018. Peter Joseph Gloviczki considers this pivotal period spannin... Lees meer

Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in empha... Lees meer

Storying Domestic Violence

Jarmila Mildorf

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Globally, at least one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, according to World Bank figures, which are confirmed by ... Lees meer

Narrative Complexity

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been ful... Lees meer

Unnatural Narrative

Jan Alber

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real worl... Lees meer

Fictional Minds

Alan Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. De... Lees meer

Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and rec... Lees meer

The Story of Me

Marjorie Worthington

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literatur... Lees meer

Narrative Truthiness

Annjeanette Wiese

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Narrative Truthiness explores the complex nature of truth by adapting Stephen Colbert's concept of truthiness (which on its own repudiates complexity)... Lees meer

Coincidence and Counterfactuality

Hilary P Dannenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• In Coincidence and Counterfactuality , a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tel... Lees meer

Storyworlds Across Media

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media--everything from oral... Lees meer

Reading the Contemporary Author

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person--an artist and cre... Lees meer

Useful Fictions

Michael Austin

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Narrative
• "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album . Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions . Why, in... Lees meer