Alice Bell - Böcker

Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of “medial reading”, it argues for the centrality of an audience’s interest in, awareness of and/or attention to the medium in which a text is produced and received, and which we argue should be applied to reader data across media. The book analyses and theorises five generations of digital fiction and their reading including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. It showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of qualitative reader response research across a variety of contexts and settings from screen-based and embodied interaction to gallery installation, and from reading group and individual interview to think-aloud methodologies. The book thus addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction reading by designing and reporting on new empirical studies focusing on hypertextuality, interactivity, immersion, as well as medium-specific forms of textual “you”, ontological ambiguity, reader orientation and empathy. In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands cognitive, transmedial, and empirical narratology and stylistics by placing the reader of these new narratives front and centre.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century.Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century.Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. Analyzing Digital Fiction offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology. Essays propose ways in which digital environments can expand, challenge and test the limits of literary theories which have, until recently, predominantly been based on models and analyses of print texts.

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology.Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area-LubomÍr Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan-Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.

Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of “medial reading”, it argues for the centrality of an audience’s interest in, awareness of and/or attention to the medium in which a text is produced and received, and which we argue should be applied to reader data across media. The book analyses and theorises five generations of digital fiction and their reading including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. It showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of qualitative reader response research across a variety of contexts and settings from screen-based and embodied interaction to gallery installation, and from reading group and individual interview to think-aloud methodologies. The book thus addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction reading by designing and reporting on new empirical studies focusing on hypertextuality, interactivity, immersion, as well as medium-specific forms of textual “you”, ontological ambiguity, reader orientation and empathy. In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands cognitive, transmedial, and empirical narratology and stylistics by placing the reader of these new narratives front and centre.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. Analyzing Digital Fiction offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology. Essays propose ways in which digital environments can expand, challenge and test the limits of literary theories which have, until recently, predominantly been based on models and analyses of print texts.

The history of climate change research – how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may be our saviour, and how renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery.Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are usually about the future, but Our Biggest Experiment turns instead asks how did we get into this mess, and how and when did we work out it was happening? Join Alice Bell on a rip-roaring ride through the characters, ideas, technologies and experiments that shaped the climate crisis we now find ourselves in.From an emerging idea of ‘greenhouse gases’ in the 19th century and, via scientific expeditions across oceans and ice caps and into space, the coining of the term ‘global warming’ in the 1970s, Bell explores how we began to realise that not only could human pollution dangerously warm the climate, but that it was already doing so. Drop by the first climate talks, weather forecasts and early experiments. Watch excitement over solar and wind power start in the 1870s, only to be forgotten before being rediscovered a century later. See the monster of big oil slain by a plucky investigative journalist back in the 1910s, only tore-emerge more powerful than ever. However, this isn’t a simple story with exploitative fossil-fuel baddies on one side and the goodies of renewable energy, environmentalism and climate science on the other. It’s more complex than that.As citizens of the 21st century, we’ve been left an almighty mess, but as this ultimately hopeful book argues, we’ve also inherited the tools for our survival.

This book is for all of us: whether you're in a relationship, situationship, perpetually single or newly single - your relationship status doesn't matter. For anyone wanting to better understand how to approach relationships and confidently step forward as your full, authentic self in your love life, you have come to the right place. In Trust Your Timing, Vogue astrologer Alice Bell shows us how understanding our own astrology can transform our relationships. By guiding us through the basics of reading our birth charts (the map of stars and planets at the exact moment we are born) and then moving on to more advanced areas of astrology, she shows us how learning to trust our timing empowers us to live our lives more freely.Whether you're new to astrology or have been practicing for years, this book is a must-have companion for answering the questions you've always had about your love life and help you build stronger relationships.Published by Happy Place Books

The hilarious, unputdownable murder mystery set in Brighton about wrestling and ghosts for fans of Bella Mackie and Over My Dead Body ______________________________'Laugh-out-loud funny' Belfast Telegraph'Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists' Kristen Perrin'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett'Agatha Christie meets Ghosts' J M Hall______________________________THIS MYSTERY HAS THEM IN A CHOKEHOLD...Claire Hendricks can see ghosts. But that doesn't make solving murders any easier...Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced his late father is haunting his Brighton gym and he hires medium-turned-private-investigator Claire to help his beloved dad move on to the next life.But Eddie can't because he's adamant he was murdered, and he tasks Claire with bringing his killer to justice.In the world of pro-wrestling, can she work out what's real, who's faking and unmask the killer once and for all?___________________________Readers love the Grave Expectations series...'Brilliantly funny!''Witty and smart''Extraordinary sleuthing''Loved every minute''Loads of clever twists'

The hilarious, unputdownable murder mystery set in Brighton about wrestling and ghosts for fans of Bella Mackie and Over My Dead Body ______________________________'Laugh-out-loud funny' Belfast Telegraph'Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists' Kristen Perrin'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett'Agatha Christie meets Ghosts' J M Hall______________________________THIS MYSTERY HAS THEM IN A CHOKEHOLD...Claire Hendricks can see ghosts. But that doesn't make solving murders any easier...Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced his late father is haunting his Brighton gym and he hires medium-turned-private-investigator Claire to help his beloved dad move on to the next life.But Eddie can't because he's adamant he was murdered, and he tasks Claire with bringing his killer to justice.In the world of pro-wrestling, can she work out what's real, who's faking and unmask the killer once and for all?___________________________Readers love the Grave Expectations series...'Brilliantly funny!''Witty and smart''Extraordinary sleuthing''Loved every minute''Loads of clever twists'

The hilarious, unputdownable murder mystery set in Brighton about wrestling and ghosts for fans of Bella Mackie and Over My Dead Body ______________________________'Laugh-out-loud funny' Belfast Telegraph'Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists' Kristen Perrin'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett'Agatha Christie meets Ghosts' J M Hall______________________________THIS MYSTERY HAS THEM IN A CHOKEHOLD...Claire Hendricks can see ghosts. But that doesn't make solving murders any easier...Pro-wrestling manager Ken King is convinced his late father is haunting his Brighton gym and he hires medium-turned-private-investigator Claire to help his beloved dad move on to the next life.But Eddie can't because he's adamant he was murdered, and he tasks Claire with bringing his killer to justice.In the world of pro-wrestling, can she work out what's real, who's faking and unmask the killer once and for all?___________________________Readers love the Grave Expectations series...'Brilliantly funny!''Witty and smart''Extraordinary sleuthing''Loved every minute''Loads of clever twists'

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKA KINDLE TOP 5 BESTSELLER'Fast, funny and furious, this book has bags of humour, bags of heart and a proper murder mystery at its core' Janice HallettClaire and Sophie aren't your typical murder investigators . . .When 30-something freelance medium Claire Hendricks is invited to an old university friend's country pile to provide entertainment for a family party, her best friend Sophie tags along. In fact, Sophie rarely leaves Claire's side, because she's been haunting her ever since she was murdered at the age of seventeen.On arrival at The Cloisters it quickly becomes clear that this family is hiding more than just the good china, as Claire learns someone has recently met an untimely end at the house.Teaming up with the least unbearable members of the Wellington-Forge family - depressive ex-cop Basher and teenage radical Alex - Claire and Sophie determine to figure out not just whodunnit, but who they killed, why and when.Together they must race against incompetence to find the murderer - before the murderer finds them... in this funny, modern, media-literate mystery for the My Favourite Murder generation.'Read this fabulous book' Ben Aaronovitch'A delicious mashup of grisly murder, country house and semi-helpful ghosts' Stuart MacBride'Fresh, funny and hugely enjoyable' Catherine Ryan Howard

'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara'Delightful' Stuart Turton'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice HallettProfessional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago.But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?

'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara'Delightful' Stuart Turton'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice HallettProfessional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago.But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?