Intermediality and StorytellingMarina Grishakova, Marie-Laure Ryan The ‘narrative turn’ in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the ‘medial turn’ in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called ‘multi-modal works’, and what new forms of narrativity are made possible by the emergence of digital media. |
Contents
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William S Burroughs Alan Moore Art Spiegelman and the Medium of the Book | 49 |
Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory | 78 |
The Anxiety of Storytelling After 911 | 99 |
MultiProtagonist Films and Relationism | 122 |
On Film Musicals and Narrative | 147 |
Problems of Verbal and Visual Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | 183 |
Text and Talk in Online Communities | 208 |
Games of Interpretation and a Graphophiliac God of War | 232 |
On the Narrative Worlds of a Multimedia Promotional Campaign for a Public Service Television Channel | 258 |
find your own words I have no more | 285 |
Intermedial Metarepresentations | 312 |
Backmatter | 333 |
Photo Narrative Sequential Photography Photonovels | 165 |