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This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narratology (including contributions from German-language literature less widely known in Anglophone scholarship). The book goes beyond the current focus of film music studies on the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music (music understood to be or not to be part of the storyworld of a film), and takes into account different levels of narration: from the extrafictional to ‘focalizations’ of subjectivity, and music’s many and complex movements between them.

Media and Communications --- film music --- soundtrack --- narratology

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La période 1760-1850 voit l’émergence, puis le déclin d’un sous-genre nouveau : le récit de voyage excentrique. Ces « anti-récits de voyage » qui se déroulent dans une chambre, dans mes poches, en zigzag… jouent tant avec les codes narratologiques du voyage classique qu’avec sa mise en livre, déployant notamment des extravagances paratextuelles et typographiques qui problématisent la place de l’ouvrage dans un circuit de communication de plus en plus dominé par le paradigme industriel. Si Laurence Sterne, qui lance cette mode avec Tristram Shandy et Le Voyage sentimental, revendique sa célébrité littéraire, pour ses imitateurs Xavier de Maistre et Rodolphe Töpffer il s’agit de maintenir leur automarginalisation dans un champ auctorial de plus en plus sous le signe de la « littérature industrielle » (Sainte-Beuve). Ancrée dans une double tradition de la narratologie française (Lejeune, Genette) et de l’histoire du livre anglo-saxon (Robert Darnton), cette étude retrace le trajet de cet épiphénomène éditorial de ses origines à sa disparition avec le triomphe du paradigme industriel dans la production livresque, mettant ainsi en lumière la métamorphose non seulement d’un genre littéraire, mais du champ auctorial et éditorial dans lequel il s’inscrit.

eccentricity --- travel narrative --- book history --- paratext --- narratology

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The early days when digital games were new, harmless, and a niche are long gone. Today’s games can simulate battlefields, predict disaster, and crash markets. We are faced with a diversity of play and the ubiquity of games, making them not only a popular medium, but the leading medium of our contemporary society. Based on the keynote lectures held at DiGRA2015, “Diversity of Play” provides a critical view on the current stage of digital games from a theoretic, artistic, and practical perspective by pointing towards the uncanny, the power of “unnatural” narratives, and the exceptions and uncertainties of digital ludic environments. With an interview with Karen Palmer and essays by Astrid Ensslin, Mathias Fuchs, Tanya Krzywinska, and Markus Rautzenberg.

Gamification --- Diversity --- Play Studies --- Game Studies --- Gothic --- Narratology --- Ludology --- Ludification

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Since ancient Greek-Latin and Judeo-Christian antiquity and also in a constant return to these two traditions the people of Europe have created a great treasure trove of poems. These poems have expressed and shaped the eras of their history. While myth, epic and novel have told the great stories of the world and of the gods, peoples and heroes, the poem created the ego-telling voice at an early age and thus enabled her to make herself heard and accentuated in the great and small events of the time; to try out feelings, attitudes, values and thus to prepare new mentalities.This division of labour between poem and narrative is always kept in view in the lectures of this book, because they use the now developed approaches of narrative research, narratology, to discover the special possibilities of poetry. Thus, one can see more clearly what role poems and songs play in the subjectivization of religion and love since the Reformation, how they promote the liberation of the individual in the Enlightenment, how they promote a new religion of nature and art, how they stimulate the nationalism of the 19th century and how to adopt new attitudes in the process of modern civilization with daring experiments. The specialist disciplines have distributed this common treasure among themselves and thus almost lost sight of it. The public lecture, however, has made it visible to those involved, always using the example and in a language accessible to all, which has been preserved in this book.

lyric poetry --- Europe --- Ancient World --- Hebrew --- Germany --- Great Britain --- China --- Hispanoamerica --- Narratology --- Europe --- Ancient World

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Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical and narrative scholars as well as environmental humanities scholars interested in narrative. Erin James and Eric Morel’s volume Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology explores the complexity of pairing material environments and their representations with narrative forms of understanding. To explore the methodological possibilities within “econarratology,” the contributors evaluate the mechanics of how narratives convey environmental understanding via building blocks such as the organization of time and space, characterization, focalization, description, and narration. They also query how readers emotionally and cognitively engage with such representations and how the process of encountering different environments in narratives stands to affect real-world attitudes and behaviors.

Literature --- Ecocriticism --- Narrative Theory --- Narratology --- Environment --- Narrative --- Environmental Humanities --- Jeff Van der Meer --- Annihilation --- Don DeLillo