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Author:   Alice Bell ,  Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9780803294998

ISBN 10:   0803294999
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   01 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction: Possible Worlds Theory Revisited Marie-Laure Ryan and Alice Bell Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives of Possible Worlds 1. Porfyry’s Tree for the Concept of Fictional Worlds Lubomír Doležel 2. From Possible Worlds to Storyworlds: On the Worldness of Narrative Representation Marie-Laure Ryan 3. Interface Ontologies: On the Possible, Virtual, and Hypothetical in Fiction Marina Grishakova Part 2. Possible Worlds and Cognition 4. Ungrounding Fictional Worlds: An Enactivist Perspective on the “Worldlikeness” of Fiction Marco Caracciolo 5. Postmodern Play with Worlds: The Case of At Swim-Two-Birds W. Michelle Wang 6. Logical Contradictions, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Embodied Mind Jan Alber Part 3. Possible Worlds and Literary Genres 7. Escape into Alternative Worlds and Time(s) in Jack London’s The Star Rover Christoph Bartsch 8. “As Many Worlds as Original Artists”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Literature of Fantasy Thomas L. Martin 9. The Best/Worst of All Possible Worlds? Utopia, Dystopia, and Possible Worlds Theory Mattison Schuknecht Part 4. Possible Worlds and Digital Media 10. Digital Fictionality: Possible Worlds Theory, Ontology, and Hyperlinks Alice Bell 11. Possible Worlds, Virtual Worlds Françoise Lavocat 12. Rereading Manovich’s Algorithm: Genre and Use in Possible Worlds Theory Daniel Punday Postface Thomas G. Pavel Contributors Index

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This collection is likely to become a kind of one-stop shop for scholars working on a range of related problems at the forefront of current narrative research: fictionality, digital media, transfictionality and transmediality, post-postmodernism, the poetics of science fiction and fantasy, [and more]. -Brian McHale, Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University -- Brian McHale This book is a masterly summary of the progress made so far in the application of possible worlds theory to narratology and a valuable indicator of the many fascinating and thought-provoking directions in which research can be taken in the future. This book should be read by everyone with an interest in narrative theory. -Alan Palmer, author of Fictional Minds -- Alan Palmer

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Alice Bell is a reader in English language and literature at Sheffield Hallam University in England. She is the author of The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction and the coeditor of Analyzing Digital Fiction. Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar and the laureate of the 2017 Wayne Booth Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She is the author and editor of numerous books and is the coauthor of Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology (Nebraska, 2014).  

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