Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media

Mari Hatavara is Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Tampere, FinlandMatti Hyvärinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, FinlandMaria Mäkelä is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, FinlandFrans Mäyrä is Professor of Information Studies and Interactive Media at the University of Tampere, Finland

• Introduction: Minds in Action, Interpretive Traditions in Interaction Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, and Frans Mäyrä Section I 1. Texts, Worlds, Stories: Narrative Worlds as Cognitive and Ontological Concept Marie-Laure Ryan 2. Storyworlds and Paradoxical Narration: Putting Classifications to a Transmedial Test Liviu Lutas 3 The Charge against Classical and Post-Classical Narratologies’ "Epistemic" Approach to Literary Fiction Greger Andersson Section II 4. How You Emerge from This Game Is up to You: Agency, Positioning, and Narrativity in The Mass Effect Trilogy Hanna-Riikka Roine 5. Playing the Worlds of Prom Week Ben Samuel, Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Mike Treanor, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh McCoy, Aaron Reed, and Michael Mateas 6. Scripting Beloved Discomfort: Narratives, Fantasies, and Authenticity in Online Sadomasochism J. Tuomas Harviainen 7. Storyworld in Text-Messages: Sequentiality and Spatialisation Agnieszka Lyons Section III 8. Defending the Private and the Unnarratable: Doomed Attempts to Read and Write Literary and Cinematic Minds in Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle Tytti Rantanen 9. Of Minds and Monsters: the Eventfulness of Monstrosity and the Poetics of Immersion in Horror Literature Gero Brümmer 10. Narrative Conventions in Hallucinatory Narratives Tommi Kakko 11. Narrative and Minds in the Traditional Ballads of Early Country Music Alan Palmer Section IV 12. Mind Reading, Mind Guessing, or Mental-State Attribution? The Puzzle of John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning Matti Hyvärinen 13 Mind as World in the Reality Game Show Survivor Maria Mäkelä 14 Performing Selves and Audience Design: Interview Narratives on the Internet Jarmila Mildorf 15 Documenting Everyday Life: Mind Representation in the Web Exhibition "A Finnish Winter Day" Mari Hatavara Afterword: A New Normal? Brian McHale