The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Routledge Literature Companions)

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Contributors
Introduction: Narrative Today: Telling Stories in a Post-Truth World
	Story and Narrative
	Enter the Routledge Companion
	References
Part I Narrative and Its Others
	1 My Story, Your Narrative: Scholarly Terms and Popular Usage
		The Broadening Scope of “Narrative” – and What It Means to Contemporary Usage
		From Contesting Narratives to the Relativization of Knowledge as “Narrative”
		Storytelling Consultants and the “Compelling Story”
		Personal Stories Cum Instrumental Narratives: Storyspeak and Social Media
		A Tentative Classification of the Popular Uses of “Story” and “Narrative” and Its Narrative-Theoretical Implications
		References
	2 Non-Narrative Genres: Exposition, Lists, Lyric, Etc.
		Narrative as Text Type and Macro-Genre
		Full vs. Reduced Narrativity – The Problems of Definition
		Expository Prose: Argumentation and Instruction
		Forms of Non-Narrative in Narrative: Description, Lists, Dialogue, Etc.
			Descriptions
			Dialogue
			Lists
		The Lyric: Narrative and Non-Narrative
		Factuality and Fictionality of the Non-Narrative
		Notes
		References
	3 Narrative and Economic Modelling
		Cognitive Narratology, Possible Worlds, and Economic Science
		Fictionality in Economic Modelling
		“When I Am President”: Metalepsis and Economic Modelling
		Appendix
		Notes
		References
	4 Data Narratives: Visualization and Interactivity in Representations of COVID-19
		Notes
		References
Part II Narrative and the Public Sphere
	5 What Is “The Narrative”?: Conspiracy Theories and Journalistic Emplotment in the Age of Social Media
		The Daily News Cycle and Controlling “The Narrative”
		Conspiracy Theories as the Other
		What Is a Conspiracy Theory?
		Conspiracy Theories as Acts of Narrative Cognition
		Conspiracy Theories as Acts of Narrative Construction
		Conspiracy Theories as Narrative Knowledge: Misinformation and Disinformation
		Conspiracy Theories in and Against the News
		The Susceptible Citizen: Media Consumption and Conspiracist Ideation
		The Wuhan Lab Narrative: From Conspiracy Theory to Scientific Hypothesis
		The Proleptic Narrative of the Stolen Election: a Publicly Aired Top-Down Conspiracy Theory
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	6 Rodney King, The Fugitive, and the Cogency of Cultural Narratives
		Cultural Narratives and What They Do
		Race, Power, and Their Violent (Mis)Representation
		The American Myth of Black Men and White Space
		The Same Narrative, Different Agents
		The Silence of the Fugitive
		Newsweek, Iteration, and Cultural Cogency
		The Final Item and the Last Episode
		Notes
		References
	7 Personal Storytelling in Social Movements
		Why Stories Persuade
		Norms of Storytelling
		Professionalized Activists’ Beliefs About Stories
		Alternatives
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
Part III Narrative and Social Media
	8 Co-Tellership in Social Media Storytelling
		Introduction
		Co-tellership in Discourse-Analytic Narrative Research
		Methods for Analysing Co-Tellership
		A Narrative Analysis of Instagram Lifestyle Influencers
			Level 1: Life-Documenting Aspirational and Authentic Identities
			Level 2: The Mediated Interactions Between Tellers
				Interactions in the Comment Threads
				Interactions Within the Instagram Stories
			Level 3: The Ideological Implications of Storytelling
		Summary
		References
	9 (Small) Stories as Features On Social Media: Toward Formatted Storytelling
		Introduction
		Contextualizing the Platforms’ Design of Stories
		Stories as Designed Features
		Methods for Studying Stories as Designed Features
			A Technographic Approach
			Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis
			Storytelling Practices
		Formatting Small Stories
			Sharing-life-in-the-moment
				Authorizing Authenticity
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Quantified Storytelling: How the Tellable and the Countable Intermingle On Digital Platforms
		Quantification and Metrics On Social Media: a Brief Overview
		Stories as Quantified Activities: Tellability Revisited
		Quantified Storytelling: Our Approach
		Self-measurement Narratives and Their Complications
		Rallying Stories Through Metrics
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11 Networks, Interfaces, Digital Media Infrastructure, and Their Implications for Fictional World Theory
		Theorizing the Interface
		Interfaces and the Representation of Infrastructure
		Infrastructure and the Organization of Fictional Worlds
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part IV Narrative Truth
	12 Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo
		My College Roommate’s Great-Aunt
		Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction as a Triumphant Narrative of Recognizing Sexual Assault Survivors
		Context
		Disrupting Rape Culture By Exposing Patterns of Abuse
		A More Mitigated Story – How Criminal Trial Proceedings Reinforce Rape Culture
		Weinstein’s Conviction and #MeToo
		Notes
		References
	13 My Mouth, Your Story: On Co-Witnessing
		Co-witnessing and Prose Fiction
		Co-Witnessing In/to Non-Fiction Genres
		Co-Witnessing In/to News Reports and Personal Narratives
		Coda: From Co-Witnessing in Academic Contexts to “Doing Something” On Social Media
		Notes
		References
	14 Playing Games With the Truth: Tabloid Stories, Urban Legends, Tall Tales, and Bullshit
		Tabloid Stories
		Urban Legends
		Tall Tales
		Bullshit
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part V Narrative and the Novel
	15 The Undead Novel: A History of Realism Or a History of Prose Fiction?
		From the Death to the Rise of the Novel
		The Novel And/as Narrative
		The Novel And/as Fiction
		The Novel And/as Death
		Conclusion
		References
	16 This Is Not a Novel: Some Varieties of Anti-Novel
		The Novel Laid Bare
		The Novel Against Itself
		The Debilitated Novel
		Notes
		References
	17 Panexperientiality, Media, and Narrative’s Time Management Problem
		Timesharing the House of Fiction
		What It’s Like to Be a Tree
		What It’s Like to Be an Algorithm
		Notes
		References
	18 Chinese Narratology: Tradition, Developments, and Perspectives
		Introduction
		What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Chinese Narrative?
		Chinese Narratology Against the Backdrop of the Chinese Narrative Tradition
		Chinese Narratology in Connection With Western Narratology
		Forward Thinking: Future Directions in Chinese Narratology
		References
Part VI Narrative and Selfhood
	19 Life and Narrative
		Introduction
		Experience and Narrative: Hierarchical Models
		Continuity
		The Strong Narrativist Position: Merging Life and Narrative
		Narrative Hermeneutics: the Interpretative Continuum
		Narrative Identity: Living as a Process of Reinterpretation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	20 Just the Facts?: Nonfictionality and Life Writing
		Silences
		Fictionality in Narrative Studies
		Nonfictionality and Life Writing
		From Factuality to Fact-Checking: Some Considerations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	21 Toward a Rhetorical Narrative Medicine: Or, Corpus, Close Reading, and the Cases of Oates’s “Hospice/Honeymoon” …
		Rhetorical Narratology
			Narrative as Rhetoric
		Narrative Progression
		Fictionality/Nonfictionality
		Audiences
		Close Reading in CNM and RNM
		Corpus and Transfer of Training
		Progression, Purposes, and Transfer of Training in Oates’s “Hospice/Honeymoon”
		Progression, Purposes, and Transfer of Training in Ward’s “On Witness and Respair”
		Notes
		References
	22 Reading Celebrity Autofiction: Fictionality, Authorship, and Reader Responses in Narrative Theory
		Reader Response Data for Celebrity Autofiction
		The Celebrity Text
		Fictionality and Celebrity Autofiction
		Fictionality Contamination and Perceptions of Intention
		Reading Celebrity Authors
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part VII Narrative and Social Change
	23 It Gets Better vs. To This Day: Queerness, Causality, Narrativity
		Notes
		Works Cited
	24 What Does It Mean to #BelieveWomen?: Popular Feminism and Survivor Narratives
		#BelieveWomen: Reorienting the Autobiographical Pact
		From Audience to Witness: The Identity Work of Belief
		Believing All Women and Generic Boundaries
		Going Too Far? Backlash and the Shifting Terrain of Narrative Politics
		Conclusion
		References
	25 Narrating Eighteenth-Century Black Lives: Abolition and the Politics of Form
		Interiority: Who Speaks? Who Sees?
			Diegetic Level: Publicity, Privacy, and Paratext
			Chiasmus: Plotting Emancipatory Agency
			Resolution: Caste and the Limits of Liberation
			Character Space and Character Systems
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		References
Part VIII Narrative and Cognition
	26 Human Cognition and Narrative Form
		Narrative Theory and Cognitive Science
		Narratological Premises
		Enactive Cognition, Predictive Processing, and Representationalism
		The Case of Dreaming
		Social, Political, and Cultural Implications
		Notes
		References
	27 Adaptationism, Postmodernism, and a Biocultural Narratology
		Adaptationism and Postmodernism
		Scientific Reductionism and Critical Practice
		Achieving Evolutionary Depth
		May We All Be Biocultural
		Notes
		References
	28 The Experience of Narrative: Aesthetics and Embodiment
		Bodies, Environments and Narrative
		Feeling Beyond Knowing
		Aestheticisation and the “Experience Economy”
		Embodiment, Post-Critique and Cognitive Formalism
		Notes
		References
Part IX Narrative and Complex Systems
	29 Video Games as Complex Narratives and Embodied Metalepsis
		Introduction: Video Games Between Narrative and Narrativity
		Games as Complex Narratives
		Between Ludonarrative Action and World Exploration
		The Avatar as Embodied, Interactional Metalepsis
		Metaleptic Discourses of Gender, Sex, and Violence
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	30 Perspectives On Causality in Sciences and Art: On the Limits and Benefits of Narrative Representation
		Causality in Sciences
		Narrative and Causality
		Narrative Catalysts
		Conclusions
		References
	31 Concepts and Aspects of an Integrated Narrative Generation Approach Based On Post-Narratology
		Introduction
		AI and Cognitive Science, Narratology, and Narrative Generation Systems
		Cultural Context: Exploring Japanese Narratology Through Kabuki
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgment
		References
	32 Storytelling and Narrative Capital in Organizations: Bringing Boje and Bourdieu Into Conversation
		Introduction
		Core Notions of Organization Studies
			Organizational Theory and Organization Studies
			Neo-institutional Theory in Organization Studies
		Core Notions of Bourdieusian Theory
		Core Notions of (Bojean) Narrative Organization Studies
		Studying Organizational Fields With Bourdieu and Narrative Theory: a Narrative Field Methodology, (Ante)narrative Fields, …
			Methodology: Systematically Mapping Narratives Suspended in Context and Time
			Narratives as Nomos and as Means of Struggle
			(Ante)narrative Fields and Narrative Capital
		Summary and Conclusion: How Can Bourdieusian Field Theory and Narrative Organization Studies Conjoin?
		Note
		References
Part X Narrative and International Relations
	33 Narrative in Politics and the Politics of Narrative
		Introduction
		Narrative as Tools
		Narrative as Evidence
		Narrative as Method
		Futures of Narrative in Politics
		Note
		References
	34 The Narrative Turn in European Studies: A Synergic Approach
		Narratives of Europe: An Interrelated Academic and Political Approach
		Narrative Pluralism in the EU
			The Retrospective Construction of the EU as a Peace Plan
			The Transformations of Economic and Social Narratives
			From Global Europe to Geopolitical Europe
		Beyond the Political Understanding of Narratives: A Need for More Linguistics-Oriented Research
		A Close Look at Content Through the Applied Linguistics Lens: The Narrative Idiolects of Two EU Leaders
			References to the Nobel Narrative
			References to the Economic and Social Narrative
			References to the Geopolitics Narrative
		Concluding Thought
		Notes
		References
	35 Migration and Narrative Dynamics
		Introduction
		Narrative Dynamics: Toward an Inventory of Relevant Phenomena
			Narrative Event Modeling and Management
			Narrative Purpose and Chaff
			Narrative Aggregation and Normalization
			Narrative (Re)alignment and Redirection
			Multiple and Competing Narratives
		The Narrative Dynamics of Migration: Three Scenarios
			Pinball Effects? Centrifugal vs. Centripetal (Counter)-Narratives
			Antagonistic Normalization: Salvini vs. Sea Watch
			Narrative Escalation: The Y-Model of Divisive Communication On Social Media
		Conclusion: Changing the Narrative?
		Notes
		References
	36 Deconstructing the ‘Hollow Man’: Visual Narrative Analysis and World Politics
		Introduction
		Narratives and IR: Theoretical and Methodological Implications
		Images and Narratives of Male Business Power – the Self-Representation of Donald Trump as a Successful Monarch
			The Handshake
			The Salute
			Two Thumbs Up
		Conclusion
		References
Part XI Narrative and the Environment
	37 Fables for Tomorrow: Narrating Net Zero
		Once Upon a Time, There Will Be …
		Prolepsis
		Narrating Net Zero
		In the End
		Note
		References
	38 Storying the Anthropocene: Narrative Challenges and Opportunities in Times of Climate Change
		Introduction
		The Anthropocene From Protonarrative to Assemblage
		Pushing the Narrative Envelope
		Storied Negotiations in The Swan Book
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	39 Narrative’s Environments
		Upcycling the Narratological Book in Hand
		Deep Green Roots: Rereading Vladimir Propp’s Morphology
		Chronotopes, Where Content and Context Cross
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
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