Storyworlds across Media

"Seminal for transmedia and narratology scholars. . . . A fascinating exploration of new analytical ideas that help explain the power and technique of media collisions now available in modern storytelling."Kris Baranovic, Big Muddy "Storyworlds across Media offers a diverse and challenging collection of essays. . . . The collection as a whole abundantly proves that a media-conscious narratology is a must if narrative theory wants to keep up with the times."Image and Narrative Storyworlds across Media fruitfully explores an important new concept in narrative theorythe storyworldthat is of compelling interest across disciplines, from TV writing and popular culture to digital media design and artificial intelligence.Janet H. Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace Storyworlds across Media offers a great deal of insight into the contemporary cultural use of proliferating opportunities (especially in digital media) for innovation in storytelling.Richard Walsh, author of Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction

Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory; Narrative as Virtual Reality; and Avatars of Story, as well as the editor of Narrative across Media (Nebraska, 2004), among others. Jan-Nol Thon is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tbingen. Most recently, he has coedited From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Storyworlds across Media: Introduction Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Nol Thon Part I. Mediality and Transmediality 1. Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology Marie-Laure Ryan 2. Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama: Selection, Time, and Construal in the Discourse of Hamlet Patrick Colm Hogan 3. Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective Representation in Contemporary Feature Films, Graphic Novels, and Computer Games Jan-Nol Thon 4. Fiction across Media: Toward a Transmedial Concept of Fictionality Frank Zipfel 5. Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts Werner Wolf Part II: Multimodality and Intermediality 6. The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological Implications Wolfgang Hallet 7. On Absent Carrot Sticks: The Level of Abstraction in Video Games Jesper Juul 8. Film + Comics: A Multimodal Romance in the Age of Transmedial Convergence Jared Gardner 9. Tell It Like a Game: Scott Pilgrim and Performative Media Rivalry Jeff Thoss 10. Those Insane Dream Sequences: Experientiality and Distorted Experience in Literature and Video Games Marco Caracciolo Part III: Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Worlds 11. Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television Jason Mittell 12. A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling Colin B. Harvey 13. Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca 14. Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction: The Storyworld of The Vampire Diaries Maria Lindgren Leavenworth 15. The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft Van Leavenworth Contributors Index