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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marco caracciolo”
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  • Slow Narrative across Media

    Edited by Marco Caracciolo, Ella Mingazova ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Slowness is frequently seen as a response to modernity’s cult of speed and efficiency, and its influence in contemporary culture can be felt in artistic trends such as “slow cinema” or “slow TV.” Despite the popularity of these labels, however, slowness remains undertheorized in contemporary narrative scholarship. What makes a narrative slow, and what conceptual and analytical tools are best ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • New Materialist Literary Theory

    Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

    by Philipp Erchinger, Grant Hamilton, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Annina Klappert, Evan Gottlieb, Ann-Katrin Preis, Cord-Christian Casper, Kerstin Howaldt, Arne De Boever, Marco Caracciolo0, Daniela Keller1 ...
    Series series New Critical Humanities
    This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • A Passion for Specificity

    Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science

    by Marco Caracciolo, Russell Hurlburt ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Culture
    In an analytical yet increasingly intimate conversation, *A Passion for Specificity:*Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science investigates the differences between experience as conveyed in literature and experience as apprehended through scientific method. Can experiences be shared? How much do language and metaphor shape experiential reports? Where is the dividing line between a ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • On Soulsring Worlds

    Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring

    by Marco Caracciolo ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal.Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by digital media, the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • With Bodies

    Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition

    by Marco Caracciolo, Karin Kukkonen ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    We read not only with our eyes and minds, but with our entire body. In With Bodies, Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen move systematically through all elements of narrative and put them into dialogue with recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy of mind to investigate what it means to read literary narratives bodily. They draw their findings ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities

    by Marco Caracciolo ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    Winner of the 2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins PrizeSlow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world. Here, slowness is not a matter of measurable time but a transformative experience for audiences of contemporary narratives ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Narrating the Mesh

    Form and Story in the Anthropocene

    by Marco Caracciolo ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton’s concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction

    by Marco Caracciolo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both cognitive science and narrative theory argue, fiction is a practice geared toward the human embodied mind, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

    by Dr Jiri Koten, Dr Emily Troscianko, Dr Thomas Pavel, Dr Martin Pokorny, Dr Fredrik Stjernberg, Professor Werner Wolf, Professor Karel Thein, Professor Enrico Terrone, Professor Marco Caracciolo, Professor Petr Kotatko ...
    The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction

    Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters

    by Marco Caracciolo ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    A storyteller’s craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are “strange” first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader would wish or expect to hear—while remaining reassuringly familiar in voice, interactions, and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Narrating Nonhuman Spaces

    Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism

    Edited by Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, David Rodriguez ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords ... Read more

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