Research Catalog

Title

Refiguring minds in narrative media / David Ciccoricco.

Author

Ciccoricco, David, 1973-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

x, 317 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "How do writers represent cognition, and what can these representations tell us about how our own minds work? Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is the first single-author book to explore these questions across media, moving from analyses of literary narratives in print to those found where so much cultural and artistic production occurs today: computer screens. Expanding the domain of literary studies from a focus on representations to the kind of simulations that characterize narratives in digital media, such as those found in interactive, web-based digital fictions and story-driven video games, David Ciccoricco draws on new research in the cognitive sciences to illustrate how the cybernetic and ludic qualities characterizing narratives in new literary media have significant implications for how we understand the workings of actual minds in an increasingly media-saturated culture. Amid continued concern about the impact of digital media on the minds of readers and players today, and the alarming philosophical questions generated by the communion of minds and machines, Ciccoricco provides detailed examples illustrating how stories in virtually any medium can still nourish creative imagination and cultivate critical--and ethical--reflection. Contributing new insights on attention, perception, memory, and emotion, Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is a book at the forefront of a new wave of media-conscious cognitive literary studies"--
• "Explores how writers and artists represent cognition in print fiction, digital fiction, and video games and what these representations tell us about our minds across media"--

Series Statement

Frontiers of narrative

Uniform Title

Frontiers of narrative.

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Human information processing in literature
• Cognition in literature
• Writing > Psychological aspects
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
• Philosophy of mind in literature
• Mass media > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-7210

ISBN

• 9780803248373
• 0803248377
• 9780803284753 (canceled/invalid)
• 0803284756 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780803284739 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780803284746 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015018717

OCLC

907651244

Author

Ciccoricco, David, 1973- author.

Title

Refiguring minds in narrative media / David Ciccoricco.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Frontiers of narrative

Frontiers of narrative.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7210