Intermediality And Storytelling

Author : Marina Grishakova,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110237733

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Intermediality and Storytelling by Marina Grishakova,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The 'narrative turn' in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the 'medial turn' in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called 'multi-modal works', and what new forms of narrativity are made possible by the emergence of digital media.

Author : Daniel Stein,Jan-Noël Thon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110427721

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From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels by Daniel Stein,Jan-Noël Thon Pdf

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology. This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

Author : Jørgen Bruhn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137578419

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The Intermediality of Narrative Literature by Jørgen Bruhn Pdf

This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material – in form and in content – and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature. It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial theory, and it facilitates a much-needed dialogue between the burgeoning field of intermedial studies on the one side and the already well-developed methods of literary analysis on the other. The book aims at working these two fields together into a productive working method. It makes evident, in a methodologically succinct way, the necessity of approaching literature with an intermedial terminology by way of a relatively simple but never the less productive three-step analytic method. In four in-depth case studies of Anglophone texts ranging from Nabokov, Chandler and Tobias Wolff to Jennifer Egan, it demonstrates that medialities matter.

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan,Jan-Noël Thon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803245631

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Storyworlds Across Media by Marie-Laure Ryan,Jan-Noël Thon Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Weigel-Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868217827

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‘Fictions of the Internet’ by Anna Weigel-Heller Pdf

The Internet has not only altered the way we live, communicate, and think, it has also breathed new life into the contemporary book market. More and more 21st-century writers invoke new media in their literary texts and explore the limits of the novel as a medium by using intermedial and transmedial storytelling techniques. Owing to the rapid changes in the media landscape and the book market, new literary experiments and genres in printed, electronic, and enhanced formats are cropping up nearly every day.0This interdisciplinary study on ?fictions of the Internet? gives a broad and extensive overview of the manifold tendencies in contemporary writing that are influenced by the Internet and new media on a thematic, structural, and transmedial level. It combines text-centered with transgeneric, transmedial, and cultural-oriented approaches, and focuses on three main concepts?namely, ?intermediality?, ?transmedia storytelling?, and ?genre/generic change?. Close readings of texts by Dave Eggers, Jarett Kobek, Lucy Kellaway, Nick Hornby, Jeffery Deaver, Marisha Pessl, and Andreas Winkelmann show that contemporary writers do not simply add intermedial references to their stories, but instead use media for a variety of storytelling purposes. The study argues that contemporary novels have creatively responded to the changing media landscape with regard to their content, form, materiality, technological support, and interactive and participatory features, and proposes new generic terms for literary innovations that are related to the Internet and new media.

Author : Lucy Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351543071

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The Latin American Short Story at its Limits by Lucy Bell Pdf

The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality, tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American culture unwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity and contemporaneity. By re-reading and re-viewing the short stories of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar and Augusto Monterroso, Bell reveals the hybridity of this genre. It is at once rooted in traditional narrative and fragmented by modern experience; its residual qualities are revived through emergent forms. Crucially, its oral and mythical characteristics are compounded with the formal traits of modern, emerging media: photography, cinema, telephony, journalism, and cartoon art.

Author : Lars Elleström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030012946

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Transmedial Narration by Lars Elleström Pdf

This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own terms. The treatise is divided into three parts. Part I presents established and newly developed concepts that are vital for formulating a nuanced theoretical model of transmedial narration. Part II investigates the specific transmedial media characteristics that are most central for realizing narratives in a plenitude of different media types. Finally, Part III contains brief studies in which the narrative potentials of painting, instrumental music, mathematical equations, and guided tours are illuminated with the aid of the theoretical framework developed throughout the book. Suitable for advanced students and scholars, this book provides tools to disentangle the narrative potential of any form of communication.

Author : Ian Garwood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748678419

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Sense of Film Narration by Ian Garwood Pdf

This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film.

Author : Ralf Schneider,Marcus Hartner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110291230

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Blending and the Study of Narrative by Ralf Schneider,Marcus Hartner Pdf

The theory of Blending, or Conceptual Integration, proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Marc Turner, is one of most promising cognitive theories of meaning production. It has been successfully applied to the analysis of poetic discourse and micro-textual elements, such as metaphor. Prose narrative has so far received significantly less attention. The present volume aims to remedy this situation. Following an introductory discussion of the connections between narrative and the processes of blending, the contributions demonstrate the range of applications of the theory to the study of narrative. They cover issues such as time and space, literary character and perspective, genre, story levels, and fictional minds; some chapters show how such phenomena as metalepsis, counterfactual narration, intermediality, extended metaphors, and suspense can be fruitfully studied from the vantage point of Conceptual Integration. Working within a theoretical framework situated at the intersection of narratology and the cognitive sciences, the book provides both fresh readings for individual literary and film narratives and new impulses for post-classical narratology.

Author : Sandra Heinen,Roy Sommer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110222425

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Narratology in the Age of Cross-disciplinary Narrative Research by Sandra Heinen,Roy Sommer Pdf

Narrative Research has developed into an international and interdisciplinary field. This volume collects fifteen essays which look at narrative and narrativity from various perspectives, including literary studies and hermeneutics, cognitive theory and creativity research, metaphor studies, and film theory and intermediality

Author : Nassim Winnie Balestrini,Ina Bergmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110579253

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Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies by Nassim Winnie Balestrini,Ina Bergmann Pdf

This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, movies, documentary films, and social media. The volume covers a time frame ranging from the nineteenth century to the immediate present. In addition to a shared focus on theories of intermediality and life writing, the authors apply to their subjects both firmly established and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from Cultural Narratology, Cultural History, Biographical Studies, Social Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. The collection also features interviews with practitioners in biography who have produced monographs, films, and novels.

Author : Christine Schwanecke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 3868213953

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Intermedial Storytelling by Christine Schwanecke Pdf

Author : L. Elleström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230275201

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Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality by L. Elleström Pdf

A groundbreaking collection of essays looking at the concepts of 'intermediality' and 'multimodality' - the relationship between various forms of art and new media - and including case studies ranging from music, film and architecture to medieval ballads, biopoetry and Lettrism.

Author : David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134458400

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory by David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.

Author : Werner Wolf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004651197

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The Musicalization of Fiction by Werner Wolf Pdf

This volume is a pioneering study in the theory and history of the imitation of music in fiction and constitutes an important contribution to current intermediality research. Starting with a comparison of basic similarities and differences between literature and music, the study goes on to provide outlines of a general theory of intermediality and its fundamental forms, in which a more specialized theory of the musicalization of (narrative) literature based on contemporary narratology and a typology of the forms of musico-literary intermediality are embedded. It also addresses the question of how to recognize a musicalized fiction when reading one and why Sterne's Tristram Shandy, contrary to what has been previously said, is not to be regarded as a musicalized fiction. In its historical part, the study explores forms and functions of experiments with the musicalization of fiction in English literature. After a survey of the major preconditions for musicalization - the increasing appreciation of music in 18th and 19th-century aesthetics and its main causes - exemplary fictional texts from romanticism to postmodernism are analyzed. Authors interpreted are De Quincey, Joyce, Woolf, A. Huxley, Beckett, Burgess and Josipovici. Whilst the limitations of a transposition of music into fiction remain apparent, experiments in this field yield valuable insights into mainly a-mimetic and formalist aesthetic tendencies in the development of more recent fiction as a whole and also show to what extent traditional conceptions of music continue to influence the use of this medium in literature. The volume is of relevance for students and scholars of English, comparative and general literature as well as for readers who take an interest in intermediality or interart research.