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The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover): Paul Dawson, Maria Makela The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
Paul Dawson, Maria Makela
R6,448 Discovery Miles 64 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media - Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds (Hardcover): Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvarinen,... Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media - Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds (Hardcover)
Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvarinen, Maria Makela, Frans Mayra
R4,736 Discovery Miles 47 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of contemporary narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific developments: what kind of a construction is a storyworld, and what kind of mental functioning can be embedded in it? Minds and worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting narratives as the book asks how story-internal minds relate to the mind external to the storyworld, that is, the mind processing the story. With essays from social scientists, literary scholars, linguists, and scholars from interactive media studies answering these topical questions, the collection brings diverse disciplines into dialogue, providing new openings for genuinely transdisciplinary narrative theory. The wide-ranging selection of materials analyzed in the book promotes knowledge on the latest forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative, necessary for navigating the contemporary, mediatized cultural landscape. The combination of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students in fields including literary studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.

Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media - Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds (Paperback): Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvarinen,... Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media - Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvarinen, Maria Makela, Frans Mayra
R1,741 Discovery Miles 17 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of contemporary narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific developments: what kind of a construction is a storyworld, and what kind of mental functioning can be embedded in it? Minds and worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting narratives as the book asks how story-internal minds relate to the mind external to the storyworld, that is, the mind processing the story. With essays from social scientists, literary scholars, linguists, and scholars from interactive media studies answering these topical questions, the collection brings diverse disciplines into dialogue, providing new openings for genuinely transdisciplinary narrative theory. The wide-ranging selection of materials analyzed in the book promotes knowledge on the latest forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative, necessary for navigating the contemporary, mediatized cultural landscape. The combination of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students in fields including literary studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.

Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom (Paperback): Maria Makela, Hanna Meretoja Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom (Paperback)
Maria Makela, Hanna Meretoja
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this special issue, contributors argue that narrative studies can challenge the late capitalist storytelling industry to direct instrumental storytelling toward more ethically and rhetorically sustainable directions. Given this, the authors suggest, narrative studies should take a more prominent role in contemporary discourses of the storytelling boom. Seeking to redefine the role of narrative theorists and analysts in that boom, the authors address its critically different aspects while also showing how narrative studies can be made compelling, engaging, and societally relevant.

Narrative, Interrupted - The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature (Hardcover): Markku Lehtimaki, Laura... Narrative, Interrupted - The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature (Hardcover)
Markku Lehtimaki, Laura Karttunen, Maria Makela
R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking potential of individual literary narratives. Narrative, Interrupted goes beyond the macro framing typical of postclassical narratology and sets out to sketch approaches more sensitive to generic specificities, disturbing details and authorial interference. Unlike the mainstream cognitive approaches or even the emergent unnatural narratology, the articles collected here explore the artifice involved in presenting something ordinary and realistic in literature. The first section of the book deals with anti-dynamic elements such as dialogue, details, private events and literary boredom. The second section, devoted to extensions of cognitive narratology, addresses spatiotemporal oddities and the possibility of non-human narratives. The third section focuses on frame-breaking, fragmentarity and problems of authorship in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. The book presents readings of texts ranging from the novels of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon to the Animal Man comics. The common denominator for the texts discussed is the interruption of the chain of events or of the experiential flow of human-like narrative agents.

Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Hardcover): Deborah Ascher Barnstone,... Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Hardcover)
Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Maria Makela
R3,001 Discovery Miles 30 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old media. Weimar became famous for the explosion of creative ingenuity across the arts in Germany, due to experiments with new techniques (including the move towards abstraction in painting and sculpture) and inventive work in such new media as paper and plastic, which utilized both new and old methods of art production. Individual chapters in this book consider inventions such as the camera and materials like celluloid, examine the role of new materials including concrete composites in opening up fresh avenues in the plastic arts, and relate advances in the understanding of color perception and psychology to an increased interest in visual perception and the latent potential of color as both architectural ornament and carrier of emotional force in space. While art historians usually argue that experimentation in the Weimar Republic was the result of an intentional rejection of traditional modes of expression in the conscious attempt to invent a modern art and architecture unshackled from historic media and methods, this volume shows that the drivers for innovation were often far more complex and nuanced. It first of all describes how the material shortages precipitated by the First World War, along with the devastation to industrial infrastructure and disruption of historic trade routes, affected art, as did a spirit of experimentation that permeated interwar German culture. It then analyzes new challenges in the 1920s to artistic conventions in traditional art modes like painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, textiles, and print-making and simultaneously probes the likely causes of innovative new methods of artistic production that appeared, such as photomontage, assemblage, mechanical art, and multi-media art. In doing so, Material Modernity fills a significant gap in Weimar scholarship and art history literature.

Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Paperback): Deborah Ascher Barnstone,... Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Paperback)
Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Maria Makela
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old media. Weimar became famous for the explosion of creative ingenuity across the arts in Germany, due to experiments with new techniques (including the move towards abstraction in painting and sculpture) and inventive work in such new media as paper and plastic, which utilized both new and old methods of art production. Individual chapters in this book consider inventions such as the camera and materials like celluloid, examine the role of new materials including concrete composites in opening up fresh avenues in the plastic arts, and relate advances in the understanding of color perception and psychology to an increased interest in visual perception and the latent potential of color as both architectural ornament and carrier of emotional force in space. While art historians usually argue that experimentation in the Weimar Republic was the result of an intentional rejection of traditional modes of expression in the conscious attempt to invent a modern art and architecture unshackled from historic media and methods, this volume shows that the drivers for innovation were often far more complex and nuanced. It first of all describes how the material shortages precipitated by the First World War, along with the devastation to industrial infrastructure and disruption of historic trade routes, affected art, as did a spirit of experimentation that permeated interwar German culture. It then analyzes new challenges in the 1920s to artistic conventions in traditional art modes like painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, textiles, and print-making and simultaneously probes the likely causes of innovative new methods of artistic production that appeared, such as photomontage, assemblage, mechanical art, and multi-media art. In doing so, Material Modernity fills a significant gap in Weimar scholarship and art history literature.

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