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