Intermediality and storytelling / edited by Marina Grishakova, Marie-Laure Ryan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grishakova, Marina.

Ryan, Marie-Laure, 1946-

Series:

Narratologia

Narratologia. contributions to narrative theory ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Influence.

Digital media.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Intermediality.

Mass media and the arts.

Mass media.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Editors' preface

Fiction, Cognition, and Non-Verbal Media / Ryan, Marie-Laure

Narrativity and Segmentivity, or, Poetry in the Gutter / Mchale, Brian

Vulgar Metaphysicians: William S. Burroughs, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and the Medium of the Book / Kuskin, William

Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory / Mittell, Jason

The Paranoid Style in Narrative: The Anxiety of Storytelling After 9/11 / Cobley, Paul

Inter-Action Movies: Multi-Protagonist Films and Relationism / Israel, Samuel Ben

All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! Prolegomena: On Film Musicals and Narrative / Hansen, Per Krogh

Photo Narrative, Sequential Photography, Photonovels / Baetens, Jan / Bleyen, Mieke

The Failure of Art: Problems of Verbal and Visual Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Lehtimäki, Markku

Interactivity and Interaction: Text and Talk in Online Communities / Page, Ruth

Games of Interpretation and a Graphophiliac God of War / Ciccoricco, David

Advertising the Medium: On the Narrative Worlds of a Multimedia Promotional Campaign for a Public Service Television Channel / Freitas, Elsa Simões Lucas

The Narrative Worlds and Multimodal Figures of House of Leaves: "- find your own words; I have no more" / Gibbons, Alison

Intermedial Metarepresentations / Grishakova, Marina

Back matter

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-93434-1

9786612934346

3-11-023774-1

OCLC:

707068899