{"title":"Editor's Column: Exploring Storyworlds across Media and Disciplines","authors":"David Herman","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134156898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season","authors":"S. O’sullivan","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"44 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123565133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storyworlds on the Move: Mobile Media and Their Implications for Narrative","authors":"Scott W. Ruston","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131542489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We have been reading Darwin’s book on the “Origin of Species” just now. . . . [I]t will have a great effect in the scientifi c world, causing a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people have hitherto felt timid. So the world gets on step by step towards brave clearness and honesty! But to me the Development theory and all other explanations of processes by which things come to be, produce a feeble impression compared with the mystery that lies under the processes. — George Eliot, letter to Mme Eugene Bodichyon, December 5, 1859
{"title":"Narrating Conversion in an Age of Darwinian Gradualism","authors":"H. Abbott","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0002","url":null,"abstract":"We have been reading Darwin’s book on the “Origin of Species” just now. . . . [I]t will have a great effect in the scientifi c world, causing a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people have hitherto felt timid. So the world gets on step by step towards brave clearness and honesty! But to me the Development theory and all other explanations of processes by which things come to be, produce a feeble impression compared with the mystery that lies under the processes. — George Eliot, letter to Mme Eugene Bodichyon, December 5, 1859","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126692496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating Infinite Earths: Readers, Mental Models, and the Multiverse of Superhero Comics","authors":"Karin Kukkonen","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"3 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114102656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To characterize readers’ narrative experiences, literary scholars have often made a distinction between story—what is being told—and discourse—the manner in which it is being told (for a review, see Herman 2002). Even simple stories permit unlimited variation in the manner of narration. Each completed narrative represents an author’s decisions about how best to tell his or her story. Consider a moment from Ron Rash’s novel Serena (2008). By this point in the novel, readers know that Pemberton’s wife, Serena, and her henchman, Galloway, have committed a series of coldblooded murders to further Serena’s ambitions for Pemberton’s business:
{"title":"Readers' Experiences of Narrative Gaps","authors":"Richard J. Gerrig","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0007","url":null,"abstract":"To characterize readers’ narrative experiences, literary scholars have often made a distinction between story—what is being told—and discourse—the manner in which it is being told (for a review, see Herman 2002). Even simple stories permit unlimited variation in the manner of narration. Each completed narrative represents an author’s decisions about how best to tell his or her story. Consider a moment from Ron Rash’s novel Serena (2008). By this point in the novel, readers know that Pemberton’s wife, Serena, and her henchman, Galloway, have committed a series of coldblooded murders to further Serena’s ambitions for Pemberton’s business:","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"267 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114243312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Double Trouble: On Film, Fiction, and Narrative","authors":"Murray Smith","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130352725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of Plato's enduring concerns was about the best mode of education. Unsurprisingly, he opts for phi losophy over poetry. In Book X of the Republic and several other dialogues, notably the Ion, Plato inveighs against mimetic poetry on grounds that include its on tological inferiority (qua imitation) and its pernicious effects on the development of the just person and the just state. To the contemporary mind, Plato may appear to be a crank or even an embarrassment. After all, the poetry he targets (Homer, for instance) is now considered to be among the greatest works of literature of all time. However, as Alexander Nehamas (1988) has persua sively argued, Plato's true concern is not with high lit erature or fine arts at all (since those concepts did not exist at his time), but with the ancient Greek equiva lent of contemporary mass-media narrative forms. At
{"title":"Medium Specificity and the Ethics of Narrative in Comics","authors":"H. Pratt","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0010","url":null,"abstract":"One of Plato's enduring concerns was about the best mode of education. Unsurprisingly, he opts for phi losophy over poetry. In Book X of the Republic and several other dialogues, notably the Ion, Plato inveighs against mimetic poetry on grounds that include its on tological inferiority (qua imitation) and its pernicious effects on the development of the just person and the just state. To the contemporary mind, Plato may appear to be a crank or even an embarrassment. After all, the poetry he targets (Homer, for instance) is now considered to be among the greatest works of literature of all time. However, as Alexander Nehamas (1988) has persua sively argued, Plato's true concern is not with high lit erature or fine arts at all (since those concepts did not exist at his time), but with the ancient Greek equiva lent of contemporary mass-media narrative forms. At","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130900404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories to Remember: Narrative and the Time of Memory","authors":"J. Brockmeier","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133975382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining People: Narrative and the Study of Identity","authors":"A. Ritivoi","doi":"10.1353/STW.0.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/STW.0.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"29 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113976988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}