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Reflecting on Wonderland: Alice’s Adventures as Metatext in the Graphic Novel
This chapter considers remediations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice texts in Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland (2007), Alan Moore’s Lost Girls (2009), and...
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Immersion: Immersivity, Narrativity, and Bodily Affect in Theme Parks
Theme parks are distinct from other immersive media in that the mediated space and the space of reception are one and the same. This does not...
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Jack Sheppard (1839–1840): Class and Complex Transfictional Character
The reception of William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel, Jack Sheppard (1839–1840), was contemporaneously deemed a mania and has been described by...
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Allotopia: A World-Building Narrative
In this chapter I propose to redefine the notion of allotopia—first introduced to narrative theory by Umberto Eco in the essay I mondi della...
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Conclusions
To conclude this long journey, it is fitting to draw a line that could serve as a starting point toward new perspectives, emphasizing what is being...
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Afterthought II
Afterthought II summarizes the ways in which locative narratives in The Silent History, Times Beach and Fens, reconcile physical and digital...
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Framing surprise, suspense, and curiosity: a cognitive approach to the emotional effects of narrative
This essay advances a new approach to readers’ emotional engagements with narrative, proposing to examine them in the wider context of readers’...
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The Authoring Problem: An Introduction
The title of this book is ‘The Authoring Problem: Challenges in Supporting Authoring for Interactive Digital Narrative’. For a reader new to this...
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The Burnt City in Development: Rehearsal as Mythopoiesis
This chapter is the first of two rehearsal studies of Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City, both of which focus on the company’s process of transforming...
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‘Do I Have to Say Exactly Word by Word?’ (Re)producing and Negotiating Asymmetrical Relations in Asylum Interviews
In this paper, we conduct a critical discourse analytical study of asylum interviews in order to contribute to knowledge and awareness of (a) how...
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Identification and IDNs in the Metaverse: Who Would We Like to Be?
One’s digital identity on the Metaverse is critical enough to warrant EU regulation. Suggesting Interactive Digital Narratives as having a role to...
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Narrativity and Reading Narratives
This chapter considers the cognitive processing that occurs during the reading of narratives. It builds on Fludernik’s concept of ‘experientiality’...
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Transmedia Storytelling Method as Sustainability Brand Study Case: BTS
Every brand has a story, but not every person behind the brand realises it or has ever thought about it. Using elements to develop a brand’s own...
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The Burnt City in Performance: Place, Space, and Experience
This chapter analyses The Burnt City in performance as an immersive classical reception. I continue to employ the methodology of...
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Game Mechanics as Narrative Mode
Focusing on game mechanics as a narrative modeLudonarrativemechanics as narrative mode, rather than considering story and game as two separate but...
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Cinematic Memories of an Infected Planet: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Climate change and the Anthropocene are the centre of this final chapter, dedicated to the analysis of chronotopes of ecological precarity through...
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A Disappearing Kingdom: Studio Ghibli’s Legacy in the Ni no Kuni Franchise
As Studio Ghibli temporarily shuttered its productions in 2014, important questions arose about the studio’s future. This final chapter takes the...
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Evolutionary Story Sifting over the Log of a Social Simulation
The process of selecting subsets out of a sequence of events on the grounds that told together they constitute an interesting narrative–known as...
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Introduction: Key Terms in Comics Studies
Over the last 25 years, the field of comics studies has become firmly established in Anglophone academia. The number of comics-specific book series,...
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Introduction: Concepts, Corpus and Strategies of Media Network Research
This volume presents another innovative contribution to the history of children’s and adolescents’ literature which includes thorough research of the...