3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
8. 1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science, and the DSM 15
9. 2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology 30
10. 3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader 43
11. 4. The Fully Extended Mind 56
12. 5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form in Speculative Fiction 67
13. II. Situated Narrative Theories
14. 6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith’s Networked Narration 81
15. 7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica 99
16. 8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology 117
17. 9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives 132
18. 10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative 145
19. III. Theories of Digital Narrative
20. 11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation 157
21. 12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability 174
22. 13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic Otherness in the Podcast Narrative 187
23. 14. UI Time and the Digital Event 202
24. IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative
25. 15. Continued Comics: The New ‘Blake and Mortimer’ as an Example of Continuation in European Series 213
26. 16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality 227
27. 17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses 239
28. 18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is? 256
29. 19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study 273
30. V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories
31. 20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative 289
32. 21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) 305
33. 22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology 317
34. 23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama 332
35. VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative
36. 24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency 347
37. 25. Local Nonfi ctionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington’s Disease in McEwan’s Saturday and Genova’s Inside the O’Briens 362
38. 26. The Story of the Law 375
39. 27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett 389
40. 28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the Production of Affect in Narrative 399
41. Index 417