Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: mediations, electronic, story, avatars
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-08-02
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0816646864
ISBN-13: 9780816646869

Traces the transformation of storytelling in the digital age. Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories. In Avatars of Story, Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms. By grappling with semiotic media other than language and technology other than print, she reveals ho

Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: narrative, theory, intelligence, artificial, worlds, possible
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1992-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0253350042
ISBN-13: 9780253350046

In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a

Author: Marie-Nicole Ryan
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Keywords: own, holding
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1605042854
ISBN-13: 9781605042855

FBI Special Agent in Charge Caitlin Chaney believes in doing things by the book. Just her luck, shes been teamed with an agent whos known for following his instincts, not the rules. To her thinking, Agent Jake LeFevre is a screw up and bound to trash her operationand career. Jake is used to running undercover ops his way, and hes not too happy with his new bossan accountant, no less, whose undercover experience is limited at best. He needs a partner who can hold her own, not a prima donna. At first the sparks that fly between them arent the good kind. From the very beginning, their cover as ma

Author: Marie-Nicole Ryan
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Keywords: true
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1599986485
ISBN-13: 9781599986487

The sheriff has the hots for her prime suspect. What’s a girl to do? Sheriff Rilla Devane has sworn to serve and protect, just as her father did before he was murdered. An influx of party drugs has killed two teenagers, but she has a suspect: handsome, rich newcomer Mackenzie Callahan, a published author seeking small-town atmosphere. To build her case, she moves closer to Mackenzie and his dangerous brand of seductive charm. She’ll risk everything for her investigation, even when it means letting her guard down and falling for her suspect. Mac Callahan lives and breathes for under

Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: narrative, frontiers, storytelling, media, across, languages
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0803239440
ISBN-13: 9780803239449

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of whi

Authors:Murray Barrick, Ann Marie Ryan,
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: personality, organizations, role, reconsidering, work
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0787960373
ISBN-13: 9780787960377

The subject of personality has received increasing attention from industrial/organizational psychologists in both research and practice settings over the past decade. But while there is an overabundance of information related to the narrow area of personality testing and employee selection, there has been no definitive source offering a broader perspective on the overall topic of personality in the workplace. Personality and Work at last provides an in-depth examination of the role of personality in work behavior. An array of expert authors discusses the connection of personality to a wide ran

Authors:Kay Ryan, Marie Dern, Jane Downs,
Publisher: Red Berry Editions
Keywords: exposed, novelties, lifeboat, jar, jam
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-12-02
List price: $18.40
ISBN-10: 098157811X
ISBN-13: 9780981578118

Kay Ryan is the Poet Laureate of the United States. Her intensely strange, yet humorous and musical poems have been compared to those of Emily Dickenson. Playful and darkly witty, The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed delves into the oddities of human behavior. Each of the fifteen poems are Ryan’s response to a randomly selected entry in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!. The poems are accompanied by delightful full color illustrations by Carl Dern. This is a perfect gift for any poetry lover.