Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution (Frontiers of Narrative)

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Synopsis
The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity.Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.
Copyright:
2019

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781496214904
Related ISBNs:
9780803296862
Publisher:
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
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Copyrighted By:
University of Nebraska Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:
Marina Grishakova
Edited by:
Maria Poulaki

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