Narrative complexity : cognition, embodiment, evolution /

Narrative complexity : cognition, embodiment, evolution / edited by Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Frontiers of Narrative .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1. Narrative as/and Complex System/s; 2. Caution, Simulation Ahead; 3. The Wave-Crest; 4. Complexity and the Userly Text; 5. The Complexity of Informative Autobiographies; Part 2; 6. Sources of Complexity in Narrative Comprehension across Media; 7. Structural Complexity in Visual Narratives; 8. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies; 9. Heteronomy of Narrative; Part 3; 10. Narrative Here-Now; 11. Body Forth in Narrative 12. Between Distancing and Immersion13. Intersubjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, and Narrative Deixis; 14. Jazz as Narrative; Part 4; 15. The Predictive Mind, Attention, and Cultural Evolution; 16. Necessary Fictions; 17. In Hindsight; Contributors; Index; About Marina Grishakova; About Maria Poulaki; Series List

"Narrative Complexity is an interdisciplinary volume that explores aesthetic, cognitive, and technological aspects of narrative complexity. This volume offers a new conceptual framework for the study of narrative complexity"--



9781496214904 9781496214928


Discourse analysis, Narrative.


Electronic Books.

P302 / .N377 2019