Storyworld, transmedia storytelling, and contemporary narrative theory: An interview with Marie-Laure Ryan
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Jiayi Chen
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Marie-Laure Ryan
Abstract
Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar based in Colorado. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory (1991), Narrative as Virtual Reality (2001), Avatars of Story (2006), Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 (2015), Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative (2016, with Kenneth Foote and Maoz Azaryahu), and over 100 articles on narratology, media theory, and digital culture. In October 2021, Dr. Jiayi Chen interviewed Ryan by email about possible worlds narratology, narrative across media, and the recent development of narratology. During the discussion, Ryan elaborates on the productive ways transmedia narratology can complement the language-based enterprise of narrative theory, as well as its position in relation to other strands of narrative inquiry. To conclude, Ryan points out the recent trends that have been enriching and expanding the territory of narratology before mapping out some areas that merit greater attention and future investigation.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Storyworld, transmedia storytelling, and contemporary narrative theory: An interview with Marie-Laure Ryan
- Being for every other: Levinas in the anthropocene
- Edmund Wilson, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the rhetoric of protection
- Corporeal narrative of insatiable desire in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
- “The old boys’ network”: Medical space, gendered memory, and prejudices in Sidney Sheldon’s Nothing Last Forever
- I, theorist: Accrediting the “wild imagination” of Northanger Abbey
- Review
- Bob Fischer, ed. The routledge handbook of animal ethics. New York: Routledge, 2020. xviii+584 pp. ISBN: 9781138095069.
