Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory; Narrative as Virtual Reality; and Avatars of Story, as well as the editor of Narrative across Media (Nebraska, 2004), among others. Jan-Noël Thon is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen. Most recently, he has coedited From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative.

• List of Illustrations    Acknowledgments    Storyworlds across Media: Introduction    Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-NoËl ThonPart I. Mediality and Transmediality1. Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology    Marie-Laure Ryan2. Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama: Selection, Time, and Construal in the Discourse of Hamlet    Patrick Colm Hogan3. Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective Representation in Contemporary Feature Films, Graphic Novels, and Computer Games    Jan-NoËl Thon4. Fiction across Media: Toward a Transmedial Concept of Fictionality    Frank Zipfel5. Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts    Werner WolfPart II: Multimodality and Intermediality6. The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological Implications    Wolfgang Hallet7. On Absent Carrot Sticks: The Level of Abstraction in Video Games    Jesper Juul8. Film + Comics: A Multimodal Romance in the Age of Transmedial Convergence    Jared Gardner9. Tell It Like a Game: Scott Pilgrim and Performative Media Rivalry    Jeff Thoss10. Those Insane Dream Sequences: Experientiality and Distorted Experience in Literature and Video Games    Marco CaraccioloPart III: Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Worlds11. Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television    Jason Mittell12. A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling    Colin B. Harvey13. Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming    Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca14. Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction: The Storyworld of The Vampire Diaries    Maria Lindgren Leavenworth15. The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft    Van LeavenworthContributors    Index

"Seminal for transmedia and narratology scholars. . . . A fascinating exploration of new analytical ideas that help explain the power and technique of media collisions now available in modern storytelling."-Kris Baranovic, Big Muddy "Storyworlds across Media offers a diverse and challenging collection of essays. . . . The collection as a whole abundantly proves that a media-conscious narratology is a must if narrative theory wants to keep up with the times."—Image and Narrative“Storyworlds across Media fruitfully explores an important new concept in narrative theory-the storyworld-that is of compelling interest across disciplines, from TV writing and popular culture to digital media design and artificial intelligence.”-Janet H. Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace"Storyworlds across Media offers a great deal of insight into the contemporary cultural use of proliferating opportunities (especially in digital media) for innovation in storytelling."—Richard Walsh, author of Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction