Marie-Laure Ryan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 996470 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marie-Laure Ryan |
| NOMBRES | Marie-Laure |
| APELLIDO | Ryan |
| FIRMA | RYAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Independent Research Unabhangige Finanzmarktanalyse GmbH |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2680-9118 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
La narratologie a-t-elle besoin de la notion de monde
Sous l’influence de phénomènes tels que le transmédia storytelling , la transfictionnalité et la popularité du fantastique, la notion de monde gagne de plus en plus d’importance en narratologie. Cet article examine les fondements théoriques de cette notion, en couvrant son usage intuitif, le concept de storyworld , la relation entre textes et mondes fictionnels, et l’apport de la notion philosophique de monde possible pour la théorie de la fictio…
Objects, designs, experiences
Introduction
This introduction examines the often-overlooked narrative role of objects, arguing that while traditional narratology has emphasized characters and settings, objects play critical and varied roles in shaping narrative meaning. Four narratological functions of objects are distinguished: mimetic (involving their representation and role in description), structural (serving as connectors between narrative episodes), strategic (influencing plot progre…
Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality
After publishing three books between 2021 and 2022 on climate-change fiction, which he calls his NARMESH trilogy (mesh standing for the entanglement of mankind with the natural environment), Marco Caracciolo is connecting ecocriticism with an investigation of how narrative deals with the materiality of the world. This book, therefore, could easily be seen as the fourth installment of the NARMESH series. Its marriage of reflection on the nature of…
Nineteenth-Century Objects
Caraion’s work examines the treatment of objects in French literature from 1850 to 1900, arguing that this period uniquely explores the multifaceted roles of material things. Rather than limiting objects to the role of symbols for abstract ideas—as seen in romanticism where objects represent emotions or universal themes—narratives of this period pay increased attention to the materiality of objects and to their role in shaping human experience. D…
Objects, narratives, museums
The current “material turn” in cultural and literary studies has led to a focus of interest on how objects shape our daily lives and to a shift of attention from extraordinary things to what French writer Georges Perec calls the “infra-ordinary.” This shift is reflected in a relatively new conception of museums: they were traditionally dedicated to unique and rare things, but nowadays one finds museums devoted to everyday, mass-produced objects. …
Storyworld, transmedia storytelling, and contemporary narrative theory
Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar based in Colorado. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory (1991), Narrative as Virtual Reality (2001), Avatars of Story (2006), Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 (2015), Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative (2016, with Kenneth Foote and Maoz Azaryahu), and over 100 articles on narratology, media theory, and digital culture. In October 2021, Dr. Jiayi Chen inte…
Media, genres, facts and truth
A New Anatomy of Storyworlds
x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Between Page and Screen
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash. New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores th…
New Anatomy of Storyworlds
Narrative cartography
Narrative cartography is the graphic representation of the spatial configuration of the worlds represented by literary texts. This representation can take many forms, depending on the relation of the textual world to the real world: annotating real‐world maps when the setting corresponds to real‐world locations; augmenting real‐world maps with fictional toponyms, in the case of mixed, real–imaginary geographies; and drawing maps entirely based on…
Narrative Factuality
The study of narrative--the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology--has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe's Fiktionalität : Ein interdisziplinäres Ha…
Transmedia Storytelling as Narrative Practice
Chapter 30 defines transmedia storytelling as a hybrid of adaptation and transfictionality. Like the former, it involves several media; like the latter, it builds a storyworld through multiple narratives. Two types of transmedia storytelling are distinguished: top-down, the deliberate spreading of narrative content across multiple media; and bottom-up, the use of many media to develop a narrative originally conceived as mono-medial. If transmedia…
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2
Possible Worlds
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media
Transmedial Storytelling and Transfictionality
This article investigates the relations between the narratological concept of transfictionality and the trendy phenomenon of transmedial storytelling. Made popular as a concept by Henry Jenkins (2006), transmedial storytelling is the creation of a storyworld through multiple documents belonging to various media. The three fundamental operations of transfictionality-expansion, modification, and transposition-are investigated in terms of their pote…
Jeux narratifs, fictions ludiques
Partant de la définition du jeu de Johan Huizinga et de la taxinomie de Roger Caillois, cet article examine les relations entre le jeu, la fiction et le récit. La dimension ludique de la fiction tient dans le fait qu’elle repose sur un acte de faire semblant. Inversement, un jeu possède une dimension fictionnelle quand son terrain représente un monde et quand les actions du joueur, au lieu de suivre des règles abstraites et conventionnelles, imit…
Intermediality and Storytelling
Extending narratological analysis to media as varied as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, the essays gathered in this volume address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called; multimodal works'; and, what new forms of narr…
Narrativity and its modes as culture-transcending analytical categories
This article investigates the value of the concept of narrativity and its modes for the investigation of the literary forms of non-Western cultures such as Japan's. Following Ben-Amos (1969) Ben-Amos, Dan. 1969. ‘Analytical categories and ethnic genres’. Genre, 2: 275–301. [Google Scholar], a distinction is made between ‘ethnic’ concepts of genre, which correspond to the types of text recognized by the members of a culture, and universally applic…
From Playfields to Fictional Worlds
This paper investigates the structuration of space imposed, on one hand, by games and, on the other, by narrative fiction. While most games create an alternative space, separated from ordinary reality by what Johan Huizinga called a magic circle, narrative fiction transports its users into an alternative possible world separated from the real world by the conventions of make-believe. Games can be divided into those that take place on an abstract …
Toward a definition of narrative
In the past fifteen years, as the “narrative turn in the humanities” gave way to the narrative turn everywhere (politics, science studies, law, medicine, and last, but not least, cognitive science), few words have enjoyed so much use and suffered so much abuse as narrative and its partial synonym, story . The French theorist Jean-François Lyotard invokes the “Grand Narratives” of a capitalized History; the psychologist Jerome Bruner speaks of nar…
Diagramming narrative
The use of diagrams as a tool of narrative analysis is a fundamentally semiotic project whose origins can be traced back to the emphasis placed by the structuralist movement on the synchronic systems that underlie signification. Defining diagrams as a spatial presentation of information which conveys meanings that could not be expressed in the linear form of a text, a list, or a formal coding system, this paper focuses on attempts to represent in…
Fiction, non-factuals, and the principle of minimal departure
Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations
In recent years the semantics of possible worlds and literary theory have enjoyed a promising cross-fertilization. While philosophers have invoked the concepts of book and of story to explain what a possible world is (Adams 1979 [1974]; Plantinga 1979 [1976]), literary theorists (among them Dolezel 1976; Vaina 1977; Eco 1979; Maitre 1983; Pavel 1986) have developed a textual semantics based on the idea that the semantic domain projected by the li…
Beyond Myth and Metaphor
The concept of narrative has been widely invoked by theorists of digital textuality, but the promotion of what is described as thestorytelling power of the computer has often relied on shallow metaphors, loose conceptions of narrative, and literary models that ignore the distinctive properties of the digital medium. Two myths have dominated this theorization. The myth of the Aleph (as I call it) presents the digital text as a finite text that con…
The pragmatics of personal and impersonal fiction
Metaleptic machines
Narrativity and its modes as culture-transcending analytical categories
This article investigates the value of the concept of narrativity and its modes for the investigation of the literary forms of non-Western cultures such as Japan's. Following Ben-Amos (1969) Ben-Amos, Dan. 1969. ‘Analytical categories and ethnic genres’. Genre, 2: 275–301. [Google Scholar], a distinction is made between ‘ethnic’ concepts of genre, which correspond to the types of text recognized by the members of a culture, and universally applic…
From Parallel Universes to Possible Worlds
This essay explores how theoretical physics, narratology, and narrative itself deal with the idea that reality consists of a plurality of worlds. In physics, the existence of parallel universes has been postulated on the cosmic level to describe what lies on the other side of black holes and, on the level of subatomic particles, to avoid the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. In narratology, the philosophical idea of a plurality of possible worlds a…
Immersion vs. Interactivity
Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory 1 Marie-Laure Ryan (bio) Few of us have actually donned a HMD (head-mounted display) and DGs (data-gloves), and entered a computer-generated, three-dimensional landscape in which all of our wishes can be fulfilled: wishes such as experiencing an expansion of our physical and sensory powers; getting out of the body and seeing ourselves from the outside; adopting a new identity; appre…
The Modal Structure of Narrative Universes
The narrative states are specified by a matrix gathering all the relevant state propositions asserted or entailed by the text, and ascribing a truth value to these propositions for every state ti (0 ? i ? n) of the narrative action.' (Which propositions are relevant is determined by the level of abstraction on which the plot is being represented.) The various states of affairs are separated by one or several propositions representing events. By e…
Transmedial Storytelling and Transfictionality
This article investigates the relations between the narratological concept of transfictionality and the trendy phenomenon of transmedial storytelling. Made popular as a concept by Henry Jenkins (2006), transmedial storytelling is the creation of a storyworld through multiple documents belonging to various media. The three fundamental operations of transfictionality-expansion, modification, and transposition-are investigated in terms of their pote…
Jeux narratifs, fictions ludiques
Partant de la définition du jeu de Johan Huizinga et de la taxinomie de Roger Caillois, cet article examine les relations entre le jeu, la fiction et le récit. La dimension ludique de la fiction tient dans le fait qu’elle repose sur un acte de faire semblant. Inversement, un jeu possède une dimension fictionnelle quand son terrain représente un monde et quand les actions du joueur, au lieu de suivre des règles abstraites et conventionnelles, imit…
Stacks, Frames and Boundaries, or Narrative as Computer Language
On the map of narrative, as on the map of the world, boundaries are everywhere: boundaries within the representing discourse, and boundaries within the represented reality (the semantic domain of the text); boundaries with gates to get across, and boundaries with only windows to look through. While geographic boundaries divide space in a random pattern, narrative boundaries present a concentric structure: each territory is contained within anothe…
When "Je" Is "Un Autre
Linguistic Models in Narratology
Toward a competence theory of genre
Diagramming narrative
The use of diagrams as a tool of narrative analysis is a fundamentally semiotic project whose origins can be traced back to the emphasis placed by the structuralist movement on the synchronic systems that underlie signification. Defining diagrams as a spatial presentation of information which conveys meanings that could not be expressed in the linear form of a text, a list, or a formal coding system, this paper focuses on attempts to represent in…
Truth Without Scare Quotes
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
A la recherche du thème narratif
Ryan Marie-Laure. A la recherche du thème narratif. In: Communications, 47, 1988. Variations sur le thème. Pour une thématique, sous la direction de Claude Bremond et Thomas G. Pavel. pp. 23-39
Growing Texts on a Tree
Is There Life for Saussure after Structuralism
Linguistic Models in Narratology
Toward a competence theory of genre
Fiction, non-factuals, and the principle of minimal departure
When "Je" Is "Un Autre
The pragmatics of personal and impersonal fiction
Le Champ semiologique. Perspectives internationales
The Modal Structure of Narrative Universes
The narrative states are specified by a matrix gathering all the relevant state propositions asserted or entailed by the text, and ascribing a truth value to these propositions for every state ti (0 ? i ? n) of the narrative action.' (Which propositions are relevant is determined by the level of abstraction on which the plot is being represented.) The various states of affairs are separated by one or several propositions representing events. By e…
On the window structure of narrative discourse
The heuristics of automatic story generation
A la recherche du thème narratif
Ryan Marie-Laure. A la recherche du thème narratif. In: Communications, 47, 1988. Variations sur le thème. Pour une thématique, sous la direction de Claude Bremond et Thomas G. Pavel. pp. 23-39
Stacks, Frames and Boundaries, or Narrative as Computer Language
On the map of narrative, as on the map of the world, boundaries are everywhere: boundaries within the representing discourse, and boundaries within the represented reality (the semantic domain of the text); boundaries with gates to get across, and boundaries with only windows to look through. While geographic boundaries divide space in a random pattern, narrative boundaries present a concentric structure: each territory is contained within anothe…
Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations
In recent years the semantics of possible worlds and literary theory have enjoyed a promising cross-fertilization. While philosophers have invoked the concepts of book and of story to explain what a possible world is (Adams 1979 [1974]; Plantinga 1979 [1976]), literary theorists (among them Dolezel 1976; Vaina 1977; Eco 1979; Maitre 1983; Pavel 1986) have developed a textual semantics based on the idea that the semantic domain projected by the li…
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Immersion vs. Interactivity
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Cyberspace Textuality
From the Publisher: Representative of the next generation of cybertext criticism, the essays in this book explore the concepts of and the forms of textuality emerging from the new electronic technologies. The first group examines contemporary literary theory and the of cyberspace. The second debates how identity is affected by the power of electronic technology to create virtual doubles of the body. The authors look at feminist and experimental w…
Taking Risks With the Truth
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Truth Without Scare Quotes
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Immersion vs. Interactivity
Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory 1 Marie-Laure Ryan (bio) Few of us have actually donned a HMD (head-mounted display) and DGs (data-gloves), and entered a computer-generated, three-dimensional landscape in which all of our wishes can be fulfilled: wishes such as experiencing an expansion of our physical and sensory powers; getting out of the body and seeing ourselves from the outside; adopting a new identity; appre…
Narrative as Virtual Reality
Fiction and its other
Beyond Myth and Metaphor
The concept of narrative has been widely invoked by theorists of digital textuality, but the promotion of what is described as thestorytelling power of the computer has often relied on shallow metaphors, loose conceptions of narrative, and literary models that ignore the distinctive properties of the digital medium. Two myths have dominated this theorization. The myth of the Aleph (as I call it) presents the digital text as a finite text that con…
Metaleptic machines
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