Transmedial Narration

Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden, and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. He has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness (2002), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010), and Media Transformation (2014).

• Part I: Drawing the Frame.- 1. Opening.- 2. Circumscribing Narration.- 3. Defining Narration.- 4. Narrating Through Media Modalities.- Part II: Scrutinizing the Essentials.- 5. Communicating, Narrating, and Focalizing Minds.- 6. Events.- 7. Temporal Interrelations.- 8. Internal Coherence.- 9. External Truthfulness.- Part III: Demonstrating the Principles.- 10. Narration in Qualified Media Types.- References.- Index.

1. 4/5

   Transmediality expanded!

   Living in a world of narratives where different stories are intertwined in different ways with different media types, this book takes a new look on the relation between story and narrative by way of infusing the concept of transmediality. Elleström understands transmediality, or transmedial narration, as the "general concept that different media types share many basic traits [and] that can be described in terms of material properties and abilities for activating mental capacities." In this sense he expands the concept of transmedia storytelling defined by Henry Jenkins as a large narrative distributed through different and separate narrative media types. Transmedial narration and transmedia storytelling are thus only two different concepts and two ways of describing the narrative culture within which we all are part of. Though the book is a theoretical and methodological in its ambition rather than empirical, it includes a few case studies that exemplifies the theories and methods outlined. A book needed for those who are interested in intermedial studies and narratology, /Mats Arvidson, Assistant Professor of Intermedial Studies

   Mats A

   04 februari 2019