A new anatomy of storyworlds : what is, what if, as if / Marie-Laure Ryan.
"Uses a broad set of works-from Sokal's hoax, to Maus, from Saussure to Barthes, from Kafka to virtual reality-to ground narratology in the concept of world and interrogate key subjects such as narrator, plot, character, fiction, mimesis, and diegesis"--
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Grounding narratology in the concept of world
- Truth: discourse types and theories of truth
- Fiction: the possible worlds approach to fiction and its rival theories
- Narrator: decomposing a theoretical primitive
- Characters: textual, philosophical, and "world" approaches to character ontology
- Plot: cheap plot tricks, plot holes, and narrative design
- Mimesis and diegesis: complementing each other
- Parallel worlds: physics, narrative, and the multiverse
- Impossible worlds: dealing with logical contradiction
- Virtual worlds: narrative and VR technology
- Transmedia worlds: industry buzzword or new narrative experience?