Fragmented Narrative: Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The Ongoing Relevance of Narrative
	Introduction to the Three Contexts Referred to Throughout the Book
	Overview of Chapters
	Notes
1 Theorising Fragmented Narrative: Knowing and Being
	Narrative Knowing
	Narrative and Being
		Narrative and Being-With-Others
	Defining Narrative
		Temporal and Spatial Specificity
		Relationality
		Figuration
		Sense of An Ending
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Telling Stories With Fragments: Vertical, Horizontal and Ambient Narrative
	Narrative and Chronicle
	Unstable Texts, Slippery Sjuzhets and Fuzzy Fabulae
	Vertical Storytelling
	Horizontal Storytelling
	Ambient Storytelling
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Interpreting Fragmented Stories I: Open Texts, Distanciation and Writerly Readers
	Dialogue and Distance
	Attention and Inattention
	Gaps and Fragments
	The Weakened Author (function)
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 Interpreting Fragmented Stories II: Existential Understanding, Limited Horizons and Narrative Forestructuring
	Understanding and Interpretation
	Interpretive Horizons
	Narrative Horizons
		Metanarratives
		Masterplots
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Narrative and Truth: Correspondence, Coherence and Disclosure
	Truth As Correspondence
	Truth As Coherence
	Truth As Disclosure
		Openness
		Fragmented Disruption
		Social Media and Unifying-Repairing Effects
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion: Stories, Citizens and Being
Glossary of Heideggerian Terms
Bibliography
Index