Tengo un capítulo en este volumen de la serie Frontiers of Narrative, publicada en Nebraska, ese estado fronterizo... con Wyoming:
Narrative Complexity:
Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
Edited by Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki
498 pages
2 photographs, 21 illustrations, 3 graphs, 2 tables, index
Hardcover
August 2019
978-0-8032-9686-2
About the Book
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 to
complexity, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and
establishing the interdisciplinary field of complex narrative studies.
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Narrative Complexity
Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki
Part 1. Narrative Complexity and Media
1. Narrative as/and Complex System/s
Marie-Laure Ryan
2. Caution, Simulation Ahead: Complexity and Digital Narrativity
David Ciccoricco and David Large
3. The Wave-crest: Narrative Complexity and Ambient Literature
Emma Whittaker
4. Complexity and the Userly Text
Noam Knoller
5. The Complexity of Informative Autobiographies
Ulrik Ekman
Part 2. Cognition and Narrative Comprehension
6. Sources of Complexity in Comprehension across Modalities of Narrative Experience
Joseph P. Magliano, Karyn Higgs, and James Clinton
7. Structural Complexity in Visual Narratives: Theory, Brains, and Cross-Cultural Diversity
Neil Cohn
8. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies
James E. Cutting
9. Heteronomy of Narrative: Language Complexity and Computer Simplicity
Hamid R. Ekbia
Part 3. Experience, Subjectivity, and Embodied Complexity
10. Narrative Here-Now
Mieke Bal
11. Body Forth in Narrative
Ellen J. Esrock
12. Between Distancing and Immersion: The Body in Complex Narrative
Maria Poulaki
13. Intersubjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, and Narrative Deixis: A Neurocinematic Approach
Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
14. Jazz as Narrative: Narrating Cognitive Processes Involved in Jazz Improvisation
Martin Rosenberg
Part 4. Narrative Complexity and Cultural Evolution
15. Narrative, Attention, and Evolution: A New Perspective on Narrative Dynamics
Marina Grishakova
16. Necessary Fictions: Supernormal Cues, Complex Cognition, and the Nature of Fictional Narrative
James Carney
17. In Hindsight: Complexity, Contingency, and Narrative Mapping
José Angel García Landa
Contributors
Index
Author Bio
Marina Grishakova is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Tartu in Estonia. She is the author of The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames and the coeditor of Intermediality and Storytelling. Maria Poulaki is a lecturer in film and digital media arts at the University of Surrey and the coeditor of Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media.
Praise
“Encyclopedic in scope, Narrative Complexity
surveys a dazzling variety of genres, media forms, and theories about
complexity, including artistic, literary, and scientific
examples. Contributions by many eminent narratologists make this an
invaluable work and essential reading for anyone interested in how the
conjunction of narrative and complexity can be configured and
interrogated. Kudos to the editors for introducing and assembling this
remarkable collection.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious.
“Challenging
the distinction between ‘simplicity’ as primary and primordial and
‘complexity’ as secondary and derived from simplicity, these far-ranging
studies make the case that human cultures and minds are inherently
complex. They are indeterminate and uncertain. This holds particularly
true for narrative discourse, which is at the heart of culture and mind.
Understanding homo narrans means understanding the human being
in the world in its most complex forms. As a consequence, narrative
studies have to refine their intellectual instruments—conceptually,
empirically, hermeneutically—in the ways impressively explored in this
volume.”—Jens Brockmeier, professor of psychology at the American
University of Paris.
“This volume opens a new window
on the emergence of narratology within the context of complexity theory.
In contrast to its phase of pluralization in the form of diverse models
and paradigms, narratology, by turning to complex phenomena such as
self-organization, nonlinearity, recursion, and nonhierarchical
relations in various media, is exploring new domains where the
interactions between embodied cognition and social and cultural
embeddedness are redefining the contours of narrative. Narrative Complexity bears
witness to the repositioning of the ‘conditions of possibility’ of
narratology.”—John Pier, University of Tours and CRAL (CNRS), Paris.
—oOo—
No tenía yo
noticia hasta hoy,
pero al lado de mi pueblo hay según parece 
