Narrative Complexity
eBook - ePub

Narrative Complexity

Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution

  1. 498 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Narrative Complexity

Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution

About this book

The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinarynarrative research on complexity. Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1
  11. 1. Narrative as/and Complex System/s
  12. 2. Caution, Simulation Ahead
  13. 3. The Wave-Crest
  14. 4. Complexity and the Userly Text
  15. 5. The Complexity of Informative Autobiographies
  16. Part 2
  17. 6. Sources of Complexity in Narrative Comprehension across Media
  18. 7. Structural Complexity in Visual Narratives
  19. 8. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies
  20. 9. Heteronomy of Narrative
  21. Part 3
  22. 10. Narrative Here-Now
  23. 11. Body Forth in Narrative
  24. 12. Between Distancing and Immersion
  25. 13. Intersubjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, and Narrative Deixis
  26. 14. Jazz as Narrative
  27. Part 4
  28. 15. The Predictive Mind, Attention, and Cultural Evolution
  29. 16. Necessary Fictions
  30. 17. In Hindsight
  31. Contributors
  32. Index
  33. About Marina Grishakova
  34. About Maria Poulaki
  35. Series List