[ecrea] New Narratives Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age, Edited by Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas

Colleagues may be interested in the following book, to be published shortly by the University of Nebraska Press. It features chapters on Lego Star Wars, Harry Potter fan fiction and digitizing aboriginal songlines and contributors include Paul Cobley, Michael Joyce, Marie-Laure Ryan, Nick Montfort, James Newman and Scott Rettberg.




New Narratives
Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
Edited by Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas
Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative
possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have,
in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory.
This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the
relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the
changing landscape of computer-mediated communication.
New Narratives reflects the diversity of it subject by bringing together some
of the foremost practitioners and theorists of digital narratives. It extends the
range of digital subgenres examined by narrative theorists to include forms that
have become increasingly prominent, new examples of experimental hypertext,
and contemporary video games. The collection also explicitly draws connections
between the development of narrative theory, technological innovation, and the
use of narratives in particular social and cultural contexts.
Finally, New Narratives focuses on how the tools provided by new
technologies may be harnessed to provide new ways of both producing and
theorizing narrative. Truly interdisciplinary, the book offers broad coverage of
contemporary narrative theory, including frameworks that draw from classical
and postclassical narratology, linguistics, and media studies.
Ruth Page is a lecturer in English language at the University of Leicester. She
is the author of Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology
and Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction. Bronwen Thomas is a
senior lecturer in linguistics and literature at the Media School, Bournemouth
University, and is the author of Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in
the Modern and Postmodern Novel (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska
Press).



December 2011
360 pp. 6 x 9 25 illustrations, 5 tables
___$40.00* paperback 978-0-8032-1786-7
$45.95 Canadian/£26.99 UK
frontiers of narrative series
David Herman, series editor
*Receive a 20% discount on this
book ($32.00 + shipping) when you
mention discount code 6af11



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