Postmodernist Impossibilities, the Creation of New Cognitive Frames, and Attempts at Interpretation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Transmedial and Unnatural Narratology 1
4. The Selection and Concretization of Elements in Verbal and Filmic Narration 15
5. Toward a Transmedial Narratology: On Narrators in Contemporary Graphic Novels, Feature Films, and Computer Games 25
6. From Ironic Distance to Unexpected Plot Twists: Unreliable Narration in Literature and Film 57
7. Narratorial Strategies in Drama and Theatre: A Contribution to Transmedial Narratology 81
8. Building Stories around Contemporary Performing Arts: The Case of Romeo Castellucci’s Tragedia Endogonidia 97
9. Narrative Journalism from a Transdisciplinary Perspective: A Narratological Analysis of Award-Winning Literary Reportages 117
10. Web Series between User-Generated Aesthetics and Self- Reflexive Narration: On the Diversification of Audiovisual Narration on the Internet 137
11. Emergent Narrative, Collaborative Storytelling: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Alternate Reality Games 161
12. Photography and Narrative: The Representation of the Atomic Bomb in Photographs of Nagasaki from 1945 to 1995 179
13. Musical Narratology: An Outline 197
14. Flow-Stoppers and Frame-Breakers: The Cognitive Complexities of the Film Musical Exemplified by Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000) 221
15. The Unnatural in E. A. Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” 239
16. Postmodernist Impossibilities, the Creation of New Cognitive Frames, and Attempts at Interpretation 261
17. Notes on Contributors 281