Building Imaginary Worlds
Autor Mark J. P. Wolfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 dec 2012
- a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced
- a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present
- internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another
- an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media
- an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415631204
ISBN-10: 0415631203
Pagini: 394
Ilustrații: 20 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0415631203
Pagini: 394
Ilustrații: 20 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Routledge
Cuprins
Introduction 1. Worlds within the World 2. A History of Imaginary Worlds 3. World Structures and Systems of Relationships 4. More Than a Story: Narrative Threads and Narrative Fabric 5. Subcreation within Subcreated Worlds 6. Transmedial Growth and Adaptation 7. Circles of Authorship Glossary Appendix: Timeline of Imaginary Worlds
Recenzii
"Building Imaginary Worlds is a stunning work of scholarship, encyclopedic in its scope, well-informed in its theory, and totally infectious in its enthusiasm for its topic. It will go down as the Bible of imaginary worlds." ߝMarie-Laure Ryan, author of Avatars of Story
"Wolf shifts our focus from particular stories and media to the fantastical contexts we have created. Imaginary worlds express our deepest hopes, but we don't merely imagine these places. We try to live there, and in this choice lies tremendous social disruption." ߝEdward Castronova, author of Synthetic Worlds
"Wolf shifts our focus from particular stories and media to the fantastical contexts we have created. Imaginary worlds express our deepest hopes, but we don't merely imagine these places. We try to live there, and in this choice lies tremendous social disruption." ߝEdward Castronova, author of Synthetic Worlds
Notă biografică
Mark J.P. Wolf is Professor of Communication at Concordia University Wisconsin. He is the author of Myst and Riven: The World of the D’ni, editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Video Games, and co-editor with Bernard Perron of The Video Game Theory Reader 1 and 2, among other books.