Beyond classical narration : transmedial and unnatural challenges / edited by Jan Alber, Per Krogh Hansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alber, Jan, 1973- editor.

Hansen, Per Krogh, editor.

Series:

Narratologia ; 42.

Narratologia : contributions to narrative theory, 1612-8427 ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Storytelling in mass media.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Mass media and language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays looks at two important manifestations of postclassical narratology, namely transmedial narratology on the one hand, and unnatural narratology on the other. The articles deal with films, graphic novels, computer games, web series, the performing arts, journalism, reality games, music, musicals, and the representation of impossibilities. The essays demonstrate how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical structuralist narratology. The articles thus contribute to the further development of both transmedial and unnatural narrative theory, two of the most important manifestations of postclassical narratology.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Transmedial and Unnatural Narratology / Alber, Jan / Hansen, Per Krogh

The Selection and Concretization of Elements in Verbal and Filmic Narration / Schmid, Wolf

Toward a Transmedial Narratology: On Narrators in Contemporary Graphic Novels, Feature Films, and Computer Games / Thon, Jan-Noël

From Ironic Distance to Unexpected Plot Twists: Unreliable Narration in Literature and Film / Brütsch, Matthias

Narratorial Strategies in Drama and Theatre: A Contribution to Transmedial Narratology / Martens, Gunther / Elshout, Helena

Building Stories around Contemporary Performing Arts: The Case of Romeo Castellucci's Tragedia Endogonidia / Hennaut, Benoît

Narrative Journalism from a Transdisciplinary Perspective: A Narratological Analysis of Award-Winning Literary Reportages / Berning, Nora

Web Series between User-Generated Aesthetics and Self- Reflexive Narration: On the Diversification of Audiovisual Narration on the Internet / Kuhn, Markus

Emergent Narrative, Collaborative Storytelling: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Alternate Reality Games / Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas

Photography and Narrative: The Representation of the Atomic Bomb in Photographs of Nagasaki from 1945 to 1995 / Tsuchiyama, Yoko

Musical Narratology: An Outline / Pawłowska, Małgorzata

Flow-Stoppers and Frame-Breakers: The Cognitive Complexities of the Film Musical Exemplified by Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000) / Hansen, Per Krogh

The Unnatural in E. A. Poe's "The Oval Portrait" / Nielsen, Henrik Skov

Postmodernist Impossibilities, the Creation of New Cognitive Frames, and Attempts at Interpretation / Alber, Jan

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110376838

3110376830

9783110353242

3110353245

OCLC:

913094170