Product Description: Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories...read more

Product Description: Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media...read more

Product Description: ¿Hay una diferencia de actitud relevante entre la inmersión en un juego y la inmersión en una película o una novela? ¿Qué nuevas posibilidades ofrece la teoría de la realidad virtual para el estudio de la representación? Como demuestra Marie-Laure Ryan en La narración como realidad virtual, la literatura preelectrónica y las tradiciones artísticas ya plantearon muchas de las cuestiones suscitadas por las nuevas tecnologías interactivas...read more

Product Description: Computers were once thought of as number-crunching machines; but for most of us it is their ability to create worlds and process words that have made them into a nearly indispensable part of life. As Jacques Leslie puts it, if computers are everywhere, it is because they have grown into "poetry machines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation...read more