Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bell, Alice; Ryan, Marie-Laure

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology.Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area-Lubomír Dolezel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan-Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496213075
• Artikelnr.: 55972565

Autorenporträt

Alice Bell is a reader in English language and literature at Sheffield Hallam University in England. She is the author of The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction and the coeditor of Analyzing Digital Fiction. Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar and the laureate of the 2017 Wayne Booth Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She is the author and editor of numerous books and is the coauthor of Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology (Nebraska, 2014).  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction: Possible Worlds Theory Revisited
Marie-Laure Ryan and Alice Bell
Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives of Possible Worlds
1. Porfyry’s Tree for the Concept of Fictional Worlds
Lubomír Doleel
2. From Possible Worlds to Storyworlds: On the Worldness of Narrative
Representation
Marie-Laure Ryan
3. Interface Ontologies: On the Possible, Virtual, and Hypothetical in
Fiction
Marina Grishakova
Part 2. Possible Worlds and Cognition
4. Ungrounding Fictional Worlds: An Enactivist Perspective on the
“Worldlikeness” of Fiction
Marco Caracciolo
5. Postmodern Play with Worlds: The Case of At Swim-Two-Birds
W. Michelle Wang
6. Logical Contradictions, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Embodied Mind
Jan Alber
Part 3. Possible Worlds and Literary Genres
7. Escape into Alternative Worlds and Time(s) in Jack London’s The Star
Rover
Christoph Bartsch
8. “As Many Worlds as Original Artists”: Possible Worlds Theory and the
Literature of Fantasy
Thomas L. Martin
9. The Best/Worst of All Possible Worlds? Utopia, Dystopia, and Possible
Worlds Theory
Mattison Schuknecht
Part 4. Possible Worlds and Digital Media
10. Digital Fictionality: Possible Worlds Theory, Ontology, and Hyperlinks
Alice Bell
11. Possible Worlds, Virtual Worlds
Françoise Lavocat
12. Rereading Manovich’s Algorithm: Genre and Use in Possible Worlds Theory
Daniel Punday
Postface
Thomas G. Pavel
Contributors
Index