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The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media--everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games--is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds across Media explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness? The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate Mediality and transmediality. Story/worlds/media: tuning the instruments of a media-conscious narratology / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Emplotting a storyworld in drama: selection, time, and construal in the discourse of Hamlet / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Subjectivity across media: on transmedial strategies of subjective representation in contemporary feature films, graphic novels, and computer games / Jan-Noël Thon -- Fiction across media: toward a transmedial concept of fictionality / Frank Zipfel -- Framings of narrative in literature and the pictorial arts / Werner Wolf -- Multimodality and intermediality. The rise of the multimodal novel: generic change and its narratological implications / Wolfgang Hallet -- On absent carrot sticks: the level of abstraction in video games / Jesper Juul -- Film + comics: a multimodal romance in the age of transmedial convergence / Jared Gardner -- Tell it like a game: Scott Pilgrim and performative media rivalry / Jeff Thoss -- Those insane dream sequences: experientiality and distorted experience in literature and video games / Marco Caracciolo -- Transmedia storytelling and transmedial worlds. Strategies of storytelling on transmedia television / Jason Mittell -- A taxonomy of transmedia storytelling / Colin B. Harvey -- Game of thrones: transmedial worlds, fandom, and social gaming / Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca -- Transmedial narration and fan fiction: the storyworld of The vampire diaries / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth -- The developing storyworld of H.P. Lovecraft / Van Leavenworth
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