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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797783603321

Autore

Ciccoricco David <1973->

Titolo

Refiguring minds in narrative media / / David Ciccoricco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-8475-6

0-8032-8473-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of Narrative

Classificazione

LIT004020

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Human information processing in literature

Cognition in literature

Writing - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Tragic Misperceptions in a Novel of Twin Consciousness -- 2. Digital Fiction and Your Divided Attention -- 3. Gameworlds and Sharing Attention in Mythic Proportions -- Part 2 -- 4. Great Escalations in a Novel of the Everyday -- 5. Digital Fiction and Memory's Playground -- 6. Playing with Memory and a Graphophiliac God of War -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About David Ciccoricco -- Series List.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--

"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"--