Slow narrative across media / edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caracciolo, Marco, editor.

Mingazova, Ella, editor.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacing (Narration).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Mass media.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

mass media.

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Drawing on cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative as well as on econarratology, the volume shows both the media-specific ways in which narrative evokes slowness and the usefulness of a transmedial approach to analyzing the cultural significance of slowness in media"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The speed of plot : narrative acceleration and deceleration / Karin Kukkonen

Summaries and scenes as decelerators and accelerators of narrative speed / Raphaël Baroni

Turning pages and going up and down : on Seth's Clyde Fans / Jan Baetens

Snail fiction and the tome challenge : what makes novels slow? / Roy Sommer

Taming your time : notes on the novelistic cycle as slow narrative / Lars Bernaerts

A matter of slowness in comics : modulating time in a tale of confinement / Greice Schneider

Music as slow narrative in Philip Glass's Opera The Fall of the House of Usher / Carolien Van Nerom

Hearing the slow mood of Don DeLillo's Point Omega / Ella Mingazova

Rereading for simultaneous consciousness : the making of slow narrative in "Story of Your Life"

and its unmaking in Arrival / Gary Weissman

Cosmic summaries and the ecological value of slow narrative experiences / Marco Caracciolo

Warhol's Empire : weak narrativity and slow cinema / Peggy Phelan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814215678

081421567X

OCLC:

1410514806