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: Marco Fazzini
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: otherness, cross, cultures, avatars, harris, alterities, wilson, resisting
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2004-06
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 9042012005
ISBN-13: 9789042012004

This volume – of essays, poetry, and prose fiction – records various attempts to read the fracture zones created by the discursive strategy of a democratic imagination, where space and ideas are opened to new linguistic and literary insights. Pride of place is taken by essays on the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris which explore the implications of his awareness of a polyphony of coexistent voices that dislodges the hegemony of Cartesian dualism. This group of studies is rounded off with an interview with, and searching testimony by, Harris himself. The further contributions take up the

Authors:Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arno
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, evolution, darwinian, neo, avatars, gene
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0306466163
ISBN-13: 9780306466168

`Why life?’ Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how’ question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin’s successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the `why’ as well as the `how’. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having ’thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries’. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provi