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Storyworlds Across Media

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803255322
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Storyworlds Across Media written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media--everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games--is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. "Storyworlds across Media" explores 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? The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate.

Storyworlds Across Media

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245637
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Storyworlds Across Media written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds across Media explores 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? The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate.

Storyworlds of Robin Hood

Author : Lesley Coote
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142695
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Storyworlds of Robin Hood written by Lesley Coote and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Hood is one of the most enduring and well-known figures of English folklore. Yet who was he really? In this intriguing book, Lesley Coote reexamines the early tales about Robin in light of the stories, both English and French, that have grown up around them—stories with which they shared many elements of form and meaning. In the process, she returns to questions such as where did Robin come from, and what did these stories mean? The Robin who reveals himself is as spiritual as he is secular, and as much an insider as he is an outlaw. And in the context of current debates about national identity and Britain’s relationship with the wider world, Robin emerges to be as European as he is English—or perhaps, as Coote suggests, that is precisely the quality which made him fundamentally English all along.

Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space

Author : M. King Adkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498529615
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space written by M. King Adkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space examines television as a series of virtual realities viewers enter and explore one episode at a time. Drawing on specific examples, from Westworld to Green Acres, Twin Peaks to Fargo, it illustrates how each of these worlds invites us in, encourages us to move about within it, and constantly pushes against its own boundaries so that its universe continually expands and develops. Specific chapters consider the importance of title sequences in helping us enter these storyworlds, how children’s television educates us in using virtual reality, and the centrality of the post-apocalyptic series to the TV landscape. Ultimately, the book situates television as part of an artistic continuum, one that stretches back as far as cave paintings, but that also anticipates the digitally-based virtual reality that lies just on the horizon.

The Storyworld Accord

Author : Erin James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803243987
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Storyworld Accord written by Erin James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to compare the world of a text to other possible worlds, and by highlighting the power of narrative to immerse readers in new and unfamiliar environments. Focusing on the work of writers from Trinidad and Nigeria, such as Sam Selvon and Ben Okri, The Storyworld Accord investigates and compares the storyworlds of nonrealist and postmodern postcolonial texts to show how such narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment, bringing together these narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode that Erin James calls econarratology. Arguing that postcolonial ecocriticism, like ecocritical studies, has tended to neglect imaginative representations of the environment in postcolonial literatures, James suggests that readings of storyworlds in postcolonial texts helps narrative theorists and ecocritics better consider the ways in which culture, ideologies, and social and environmental issues are articulated in narrative forms and structures, while also helping postcolonial scholars more fully consider the environment alongside issues of political subjectivity and sovereignty.

Storyworlds in Short Narratives

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004707352
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Storyworlds in Short Narratives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary studies. Its chapters discuss the theory and poetics of tales, the art of storytelling, inherent features of the tale, and the arrangement, types, and characteristics of tales in collections. The chapter authors base their approaches on a rich variety of texts and writers that are here discussed for the first time in one volume. Contributors are: Andria Andreou, Stavroula Constantinou, Julia Doroszewska, Christian Høgel, Markéta Kulhánková, Ingela Nilsson, Nicolò Sassi, and Sophia Xenophontos.

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds

Author : Silke Horstkotte
Publisher : Theory Interpretation Narrativ
ISBN 13 : 9780814215029
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Visual Storyworlds written by Silke Horstkotte and published by Theory Interpretation Narrativ. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of comics from a range of genres, this book uses the narratological concept of focalization to demonstrate how comics draw readers into characters' experiences.

Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century

Author : Erica Haugtvedt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303113463X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century by : Erica Haugtvedt

Download or read book Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century written by Erica Haugtvedt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period’s receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The central claim is that the serialized, periodical, and dramatic media environment of the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century in Great Britain trained audiences to perceive the continuous identity of characters and worlds across disparate texts, illustrations, plays, and songs by creators other than the earliest originating author. The book contributes to fan studies, transmedia studies, and nineteenth-century periodical studies while also interrogating the nature of fictional character.

Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968529
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Storyworlds

Author : Marlene Asselin
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Pippin Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Storyworlds written by Marlene Asselin and published by Markham, Ont. : Pippin Pub.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, e, p, t.

StoryWorlds: A Moment in Time

Author : Thomas Hegbrook
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 194453007X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book StoryWorlds: A Moment in Time written by Thomas Hegbrook and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book invites readers to explore the mysterious world of time zones. The illustrations on each page depict the same single moment in time, presenting the reader with a vast array of interwoven human stories from around the world. Readers are introduced to a number of different people and activities, from to a nomad leading his camels through the Sahara Desert to a pod of humpback whales traveling through the Pacific Ocean.

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316540
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld written by Warren Buckland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss's distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson's films, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson's characters. He also provides an analysis of Wes Anderson's visual and aural style, identifying several distinctive traits of Anderson's mise en scène.

Story Logic

Author : David Herman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803273429
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Story Logic written by David Herman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrativeøis simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that help humans make sense of their world, narratives not only have a logic but also are a logic in their own right, providing an irreplaceable resource for structuring and comprehending experience. Story Logic brings together and pointedly examines key concepts of narrative in literary criticism, linguistics, and cognitive science, supplementing them with a battery of additional concepts that enable many different kinds of narratives to be analyzed and understood. By thoroughly tracing and synthesizing the development of different strands of narrative theory and provocatively critiquing what narratives are and how they work, Story Logic provides a powerful interpretive tool kit that broadens the applicability of narrative theory to more complex forms of stories, however and wherever they appear. Story Logic offers a fresh and incisive way to appreciate more fully the power and significance of narratives.

Literacy Edition Storyworlds Stage 8, Our World, Highland Games

Author : Pearson Education
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435141035
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Literacy Edition Storyworlds Stage 8, Our World, Highland Games written by Pearson Education and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Kim and the Shape Dragon

Author : Miriam Moss
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435141097
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Kim and the Shape Dragon written by Miriam Moss and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Video Game Spaces

Author : Michael Nitsche
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262293013
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Video Game Spaces written by Michael Nitsche and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how we see, use, and make sense of modern video game worlds. The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. In Video Game Spaces, Michael Nitsche investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis. Navigable 3D spaces allow us to crawl, jump, fly, or even teleport through fictional worlds that come to life in our imagination. We encounter these spaces through a combination of perception and interaction. Drawing on concepts from literary studies, architecture, and cinema, Nitsche argues that game spaces can evoke narratives because the player is interpreting them in order to engage with them. Consequently, Nitsche approaches game spaces not as pure visual spectacles but as meaningful virtual locations. His argument investigates what structures are at work in these locations, proceeds to an in-depth analysis of the audiovisual presentation of gameworlds, and ultimately explores how we use and comprehend their functionality. Nitsche introduces five analytical layers—rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space—and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles. He revisits current topics in game research, including narrative, rules, and play, from this new perspective. Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.

Classical Antiquity in Video Games

Author : Christian Rollinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066648
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Classical Antiquity in Video Games written by Christian Rollinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the potential challenges of games for scholars as well as the applications of game engines for educational and academic purposes. With successful series such as “Assassin's Creed” or "Civilization” selling millions of copies, video games rival even television and cinema in their role in shaping younger audiences' perceptions of the past. Yet classical scholarship, though embracing other popular media as areas of research, has so far largely ignored video games as a vehicle of classical reception. This collection of essays fills this gap with a dedicated study of receptions, remediations and representations of Classical Antiquity across all electronic gaming platforms and genres. It presents cutting-edge research in classics and classical receptions, game studies and archaeogaming, adopting different perspectives and combining papers from scholars, gamers, game developers and historical consultants. In doing so, it delivers the first state-of-the-art account of both the wide array of 'ancient' video games, as well as the challenges and rewards of this new and exciting field.