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Narrative Theories
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The Edinburgh
Companion to
Contemporary
Narrative Theories
Edited by Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol
I. Mind-Centred and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
1. What Does It Mean to Be Mad? Diagnosis, Narrative, Science,
and the DSM 17
H. Porter Abbott
2. The Nonhuman in Mind: Narrative Challenges to Folk Psychology 30
Marco Caracciolo
3. Narrative and the Embodied Reader 43
Suzanne Keen
4. The Fully Extended Mind 56
Karin Kukkonen
5. Sense-Making and Wonder: An Enactive Approach to Narrative Form
in Speculative Fiction 67
Merja Polvinen
II. Situated Narrative Theories
6. Cosmopolitanism, Controversy, and Collectivity: Zadie Smith’s
Networked Narration 83
Claudia Breger
7. Race and Empathy in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica 99
Sue J. Kim
8. Till Death Do Us Part: Embodying Narratology 117
Susan S. Lanser
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9. Digital Intimacies and Queer Narratives 132
Sam McBean
10. The Cinema of the Impossible: Queer Theory and Narrative 145
Valerie Rohy
III. Theories of Digital Narrative
11. Cinema and the Unnarratability of Computation 159
Zara Dinnen
12. Plotting the Loop: Videogames and Narratability 174
Rob Gallagher
13. Serial as Digital Constellation: Fluid Textuality and Semiotic
Otherness in the Podcast Narrative 187
Ellen McCracken
14. UI Time and the Digital Event 202
Daniel Punday
IV. Theories of Television, Film, Comics, and Graphic Narrative
15. Continued Comics: The New ‘Blake and Mortimer’ as an Example
of Continuation in European Series 215
Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey
16. Operational Seriality and the Operation of Seriality 227
Jason Mittell
17. Closer Than They Seem: Graphic Narrative and the Senses 239
Katalin Orbán
18. Episode Five, or, When Does a Narrative Become What It Is? 256
Sean O’Sullivan
19. Media Theory as Narrative Theory: Film Narration as a Case Study 273
Christian Quendler
V. Anti-Mimetic Narrative Theories
20. Digital Fiction and Unnatural Narrative 291
Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin
21. Lyric Poetry as Anti-Mimetic Bridging in Narratives and
Motion Pictures: A Case Study of Affective Response to
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) 305
Stefan Kjerkegaard
22. Speculative Fiction, or, Literal Narratology 317
Brian McHale
23. Unnatural Endings in Fiction and Drama 332
Brian Richardson
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VI. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative
24. Narrative and the Necessity of Contingency 349
Mark Currie
25. Local Nonfi ctionality within Generic Fiction: Huntington’s Disease
in McEwan’s Saturday and Genova’s Inside the O’Briens 362
James Phelan
26. The Story of the Law 375
Ruth Ronen
27. The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of
Selfhood after Dennett 389
Richard Walsh
28. The Body as Medium: A Phenomenological Approach to the
Production of Affect in Narrative 399
Amy Shuman and Katharine Young
Index 417
Illustrations
Figure 4.1 The three scales of the Fully Extended Mind 63
Figure 7.1 Page 26 from VIETNAMERICA: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY
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Figure 7.2 Page 208 from VIETNAMERICA: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY
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Figure 7.4 Pages 124–5 from VIETNAMERICA: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY
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Figure 17.1 20 July 2006 (drawn 18 July) © 2007, Mazen Kerbaj &
L’Association 247
Figure 17.2 29 July 2006 © 2007, Mazen Kerbaj & L’Association 249
Figure 17.3 21 July 2006 © 2007, Mazen Kerbaj & L’Association 251
Figure 17.4 16 July 2006 © 2007, Mazen Kerbaj & L’Association 252
