Refiguring minds in narrative media / David Ciccoricco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciccoricco, David, 1973- author.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of Narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Human information processing in literature.

Cognition in literature.

Writing--Psychological aspects.

Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Explores how writers and artists represent cognition in print fiction, digital fiction, and video games and what these representations tell us about our minds across media"-- Provided by publisher.

"How do writers represent cognition, and what can these representations tell us about how our own minds work? Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is the first single-author book to explore these questions across media, moving from analyses of literary narratives in print to those found where so much cultural and artistic production occurs today: computer screens. Expanding the domain of literary studies from a focus on representations to the kind of simulations that characterize narratives in digital media, such as those found in interactive, web-based digital fictions and story-driven video games, David Ciccoricco draws on new research in the cognitive sciences to illustrate how the cybernetic and ludic qualities characterizing narratives in new literary media have significant implications for how we understand the workings of actual minds in an increasingly media-saturated culture. Amid continued concern about the impact of digital media on the minds of readers and players today, and the alarming philosophical questions generated by the communion of minds and machines, Ciccoricco provides detailed examples illustrating how stories in virtually any medium can still nourish creative imagination and cultivate critical--and ethical--reflection. Contributing new insights on attention, perception, memory, and emotion, Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is a book at the forefront of a new wave of media-conscious cognitive literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1

1. Tragic Misperceptions in a Novel of Twin Consciousness

2. Digital Fiction and Your Divided Attention

3. Gameworlds and Sharing Attention in Mythic Proportions

Part 2

4. Great Escalations in a Novel of the Everyday

5. Digital Fiction and Memory's Playground

6. Playing with Memory and a Graphophiliac God of War

Coda

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

About David Ciccoricco

Series List.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803284753

0803284756

9780803284739

080328473X

OCLC:

925522791