Description The notion of Possible Worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical Narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts.
She is the author and editor of numerous books and is the coauthor of StoryWorlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology (Nebraska, 2014)..
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 of The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction and the coeditor of Analyzing Digital Fiction .
About the author Alice Bell is a reader in English language and literature at Sheffield Hallam University in England.
Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area--Lubom r Dolezel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan-- Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of Contemporary narrative theory.
This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the Possible Worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including Contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts.
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of Possible Worlds Theory and postclassical Narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of Contemporary literary narratives.
As a Theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and Possible Worlds created by the imagination, Possible Worlds Theory has made significant contributions to narratology.
Description The notion of Possible Worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical Narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts
