Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media

David Ciccoricco is a senior lecturer in the department of English and linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of Reading Network Fiction.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Attention and Perception1. Tragic Misperceptions in a Novel of Twin Consciousness2. Digital Fiction and Your Divided Attention3. Gameworlds and Sharing Attention in Mythic ProportionsPart 2. Memory and Emotion4. Great Escalations in a Novel of the Everyday5. Digital Fiction and Memory's Playground6. Playing with Memory and a Graphophiliac God of WarCoda: Pattern and CoherenceAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

"A strong entry in the growing area of cognitive literary studies."-Tony E. Jackson, Poetics Today “Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media reconfigures the old primal scene, turning the allegorical figure from foe to familiar, subject no more to repression but to remediation, a process that articulates the old and new. Ciccoricco reads fearlessly across platforms and genres, weaving into his network of resonance a new identity for mindful stories. This will be a crucial book for anyone who cares about the present and future of fiction.”-Stuart Moulthrop, author of Victory Garden and Hegirascope “It’s exciting to see cognitive narrative theory being productively applied to all sorts of new media, and especially so when it’s done as well as this. David Ciccoricco takes a rigorous and learned look at examples of digital fiction, video games, and even print novels, and the results are invariably impressive and highly stimulating. His perceptive insights into his examples reveal important new ways to think about narrative from a cognitive perspective.”-Alan Palmer, author of Fictional Minds “In this beautifully written book, David Ciccoricco uses print and digital narrative as springboards for the discussion of major cognitive issues such as memory, perception, attention, and emotion. . . .  His close readings of digital texts, especially games, lift any doubt about the ability of their medium to provide a novel and aesthetically stimulating narrative experience.”-Marie-Laure Ryan, editor of Narrative across Media and coeditor of Storyworlds across Media