The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cabrera Torrecilla, Angélica; Sáez de Adana, Francisco

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore diverse issues to bridge ideas across cultural, social, and philosophical analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040228845
• Artikelnr.: 72272503

Autorenporträt

Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Humanities of Osaka University and member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. She specialises in the cultural studies of space and time, focusing mainly on the multiverse and techno-digital contexts in fiction and popular culture. She is the author of What if a Multiverse? Literatura y ciencia en la obra de Grant Morrison (2019), and more than 20 published articles and book chapters. She has research experience in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and Spain. Francisco Sáez de Adana is Professor of Computer Science at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) and a member of the Franklin Institute of American Studies at the same university. He currently works mainly as a comics scholar, focusing on American comics, and has published book chapters and 20 articles in international journals, including Studies in Comics, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Journal of Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
The Multiverse as Fictional Formation
2. Towards the Multiverse as a Theory for Speculative Fictions, a Proposal
PART I The Multiverse as Theoretical Method for Written-Visual Fictions
3 The Quest for Reality as Lost Paradise: Philip K. Dick's "False Worlds"
Series
4 "Traveling through a Dimension Other than Space:" Multidimensional
Consciousness in Molly Cochran's The Third Magic
5 The Multiverse as Ontological Catalyst in Sheri S. Tepper's The Margarets
6 Parallel Universes in Superhero Comics
7 Thursday Next Series: Transmedia Fiction as a "Multi-Media" Multiverse
8 Fighting across Reality: Otherworlds, Parallel Dimensions, and the
Multiverse in Martial Arts Fiction
PART II The Multiverse as Theoretical Method for Audio-Visual Fictions
9 From Representation to Simulation: Narrative Inconsistencies in
Cyberspatial Otherworlds
10 Bridging Multiverse and Media/Video Game Studies: Nobunaga's Ambition
as a Multiverse
11 The Invisible Affects the Visible: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the
Portrayal of the Spirit and the Physical Worlds in Nigerian and Cameroonian
Video Films
12 "Okay, Which World do You Think is Real?" - Complex Shared
Dream-within-a-Dream Worlds in Doctor Who: "Amy's Choice" (2010) and "Last
Christmas" (2014)
13 Black Mirror: Flat-line Multiverses and Mutations of the Possible
14 Postface