The Edinburgh companion to contemporary narrative theories
Edited by Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2018.
- xiv, 425 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Intro; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative; 1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM; 2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology; 3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader; 4. The Fully Extended Mind; 5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction; II. Situated Narrative Theories; 6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith's Networked Narration; 7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran's Vietnamerica 8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives; 10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative; III. Theories of Digital Narrative; 11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation; 12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability; 13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative; 14. UI Time and the Digital Event; IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative; 15. Continued Comics: The New 'Blake and Mortimer' as an Example of Continuation in European Series 16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses; 18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?; 19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study; V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories; 20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative; 21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014); 22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology; 23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency; 25. Local Nonfictionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington's Disease in McEwan's Saturday and Genova's Inside the O'Briens; 26. The Story of the Law; 27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett; 28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative; Index.
A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become, the Edinburgh Companion to Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. The book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with established scholars who have made significant changes in the understanding of narrative and younger scholars who are putting narrative theories to use on new media forms and new literatures. This is the first anthology to consider what narrative is and what it can do in the wake of various turns in literary studies (the affective, the posthuman, the cognitive) which have been emerging in the context of digital media and algorithmic capital. Narrative genres persist, and they continue to do vital work in the world. Narrative theories provide the vocabulary for talking about how that work gets done.