Marco Caracciolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 842867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Caracciolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Caracciolo |
| SIGNATURE | CARACCIOLO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7955-0325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Playing a game of worlds’: World building and its disruptions in video games
This article considers the inverse of world building in video games, which I call (adapting David Herman’s term) ‘world disruption’. I argue that world disruption in games speaks to contemporary anxieties surrounding ecological crisis, resonating with arguments in the environmental humanities on the need to rethink the destructive ontology (or ‘worlding’) of western modernity. I distinguish between two radical forms of world disruption in games i…
Complexity and near-aha moments in digital narrative
Faced with a puzzling narrative in film, literature, or video games, audience members may approach a sense of almost understanding of what is going on, how the events are related, and so on. This feeling – which I call a “near-aha moment” in this article – is particularly common when engaging with narratives that deploy various formal devices to create cognitive-level complexity. Exploring a concrete instance of this experience via Sam Barlow’s 2…
Response to Stefan Kjerkegaard, “Poetrying the Mesh: Theis Ørntoft’s Poems 2014 ”
This article responds to Stefan Kjerkegaard’s contribution to the special issue. It argues for the need to rethink the cultural dominance of narrative (in line with Kjerkegaard’s work) but also for the importance of cross-fertilizing it with non-narrative forms of literary representation. The novel, in particular, is singled out as a capacious form capable of combining narrative with other modes of discourse, including poetry
Literary Studies and the Politics of Indirectness
Retreat and Resilience in Climate Fiction
Through close readings of two contemporary novels, Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional and Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, this article explores the existential value of retreat as a response to the ecological crisis. In these ‘fictions of retreat’ – as I call this strand of climate fiction – retreat is understood as a strategic gesture of stepping back from ordinary life in order to gain new perspectives on human – nonhuman relations. A key compon…
Disrupted agency, objects, and intimations of the posthuman in first-person narrative
Short Forms for Eco-Anxiety: Cognitive Realism in Climate Fiction
Researchers across a wide range of fields are devoting increasing attention to the psychological impact of climate change. This article focuses on literary fiction that foregrounds these psychological ramifications; fiction, in other words, that portrays characters experiencing what has been variously called “eco-” or “climate anxiety”. I argue that the short story form and brevity on a stylistic level can pursue cognitive realism by evoking the …
Objects and Algorithmic Uncertainty in Video Game Narrative
As Ed Finn argues, the defining trait of contemporary algorithmic culture is significant uncertainty—i.e., unpredictability—in how a computational system will respond to our input. This article explores how this type of uncertainty can latch onto semiotically represented objects in video game narratives. Objects in video games serve a variety of functions, which this article studies by distinguishing between the following cases: objects as part o…
Algorithmic Uncertainties in Video Game Forests
Throughout literary history, the space of the forest has been associated with uncertainty and mystery. This association endures in the digital forests of modern video games, but it also acquires new meanings as the unpredictability of algorithmic systems converges with questions about environmental crisis. Inspired by discussions on ecogaming as well as philosophical arguments on forests as multispecies communities, this article examines various …
Gamification and the Ambiguities of Digital Play in Contemporary Fiction
Uncertainty and ambiguity are central dimensions of play. In video-game design and experience, they are dramatically amplified by the material uncertainties built into digital technologies. This article explores the ways in which contemporary fiction imagines and negotiates the ambiguity of digital play. Building on Brian Sutton-Smith’s play theory, I examine how the literary imagination invokes, combines, and opposes many of the discourses that …
Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times
Cross-fertilizing narrative theory and work in the environmental humanities, this article argues that the loop as a narrative form holds special significance vis-à-vis the imagining of climate change in contemporary fiction. More specifically, the loop captures the uncertainty and moral stakes of climate change as a planetary event that affirms human societies’ entanglement with the nonhuman but also disrupts their projection into a stable future…
On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring
The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal. Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by digital media, the author situates the games vis-à-vis a number of curr…
Uncertainty and the limits of narrative: An introduction
Uncertainty is not an easy word to unpack.Partial knowledge of the past or present can create uncertainty, but so can the inability to form a coherent image of the future.Cognitive scientist Andy Clark (2016) argues that our brains are prediction machines, and that they evolved to cope with (and even benefit from) the constant failure of our predictions-that is, the world's inherent uncertainty.In individual terms, uncertainty is part and parcel …
Exploring cross-cultural narratives in literary studies: Tradition, subjectivity, and strategy: an interview with Xiuyan Fu and Marco Caracciolo
This interview article explores the dynamic intersections of cross-cultural narratology, focusing on three key dimensions: narrative tradition, narrative subjectivity, and narrative strategy. Through a conversation with two distinguished scholars – Professor Xiuyan Fu and Professor Marco Caracciolo – this discussion bridges Eastern and Western literary narrative traditions, delving into how cultural contexts shape narrative theories, how non-huma…
Why Cognitive Literary Studies Cannot Do Without Culture
I am deeply impressed with the scope of Patrick Colm Hogan’s target article. Not only does the article weave together autobiographical narrative and scholarly argumentation in an illuminating way, but it does so while offering a comprehensive overview of Hogan’s decades-long engagement with questions of interpretation, emotion, narrative form, and (most recently) morality. The result is a detailed and lucid account of Hogan’s intellectual traject…
Metaphorical Figures for Moral Complexity
If literary narrative as a practice is well suited to capture morally complex situations, that is in large part due to the work of literary (that is, narrative and stylistic) form . This article examines the specific contribution that metaphorical language makes to the literary negotiation of moral complexity. The discussion is positioned vis-à-vis debates on the specific forms of moral knowledge that literature can provide, which I distinguish f…
Migration and interactive narrative in video games: Scale, Ethics, and Experience
A number of contemporary video games (and particularly independently developed or 'indie' games) explore migration in ways that are designed to elicit productive discomfort in Western audiences. In this article, I build on a combination of games research, narrative theory, and migration studies to examine how these games enrich and complicate the cultural representation of migration. My focus is on how different scales of migration converge in ga…
Rabbit Holes and Butterfly Effects: Narrative Probabilities and Climate Science
Probability is a central concept in scientific models of causation.When I say, for instance, that 'smoking causes lung cancer,' I am not implying that smoking will necessarily result in lung cancer; I am only suggesting a strong (causal) relationship between smoking habits and the incidence of lung cancer.That relationship is probabilistic and based on statistical models which help scientists distinguish merely accidental outcomes from causal lin…
The scientific lab: Sacrifice Zones as Contact Zones
The scientific laboratory is often construed as a space in which laboratory animals are sacrificed on the altar of biomedical progress. However, this understanding of nonhuman animals raises significant ethical concerns and appears complicit in the anthropocentric and colonial violence that creates sacrifice zones in Naomi Klein’s sense. In this article, we argue that contemporary literature can work towards an imaginative and affective reframing…
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer
Game scholars have discussed both the ways in which video games structurally differ from literary fiction and the ways in which they remediate motifs and narrative strategies from it. In this article, I reverse the direction of that exchange, arguing that video games are disclosing new perspectives on both literary writing and literary interpretation. My focus is on how literature can integrate ludic strategies on a formal level, rather than by m…
Reading Anthropocene Science: Literary Templates and the Anthropocene Working Group
The discourse surrounding the Anthropocene is rich in references to literary genres, tropes and plotlines. In this article, we examine the way in which these references surface in the interviews with leading Anthropocene Working Group scientists featured in Steve Bradshaw’s 2015 documentary Anthropocene. Thinking about the Anthropocene as a “tragedy” or a “fable” (to name two genres mentioned by the interviewees) is more than a rhetorical device:…
Anthropocene, literature, and econarratology: An interview with Marco Caracciolo
Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he led the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating the Mesh.” (2017–2022). His work explores the phenomenology of narrative, or the structure of the experiences afforded by literary fiction and other narrative media. He is the author of several books including the most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (2022) and Contemporar…
Climate Change and the Ironies of Omniscience in Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
Scholars in ecocriticism have frequently argued that the environmental crisis calls for an overhaul of the realist novel, which is inadequate at conveying the global scale and ramifications of climate change and related anthropogenic disruptions to the Earth system. In this article, I explore how a centerpiece of nineteenth-century realist fiction, the omniscient narrator, may be reimagined to speak to the imaginative challenges of climate change…
Child Minds at the End of the World
This article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapocalyptic scenarios. It examines three contemporary novels from profoundly different geographic contexts—Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary, Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna, and Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness—that evoke a child’s experience of societal collapse in the wake of a catastrophic event. Diverse meanings come to the fore as these novels outline, through …
Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency: An interview-based investigation
Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities …
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…
Cognitive Literary Studies and the Status of Interpretation: An Attempt at Conceptual Mapping
What is the role of interpretation—the close reading of individual texts—in cognitive literary studies? In attempting to come to grips with this vexed question, my article focuses on the complex divides that separate the practice of interpretation from cognitive-scientific research. I argue that cognitive literary studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and I survey lines of research that have already put into pr…
The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach
Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses, the experiential level of their engagement with narrative remains relatively undertheorized. Building on theories of experience and embodiment within today's "second-generation" cognitive science, a…
Beyond Other Minds: Fictional Characters, Mental Simulation, and “Unnatural” Experiences
My essay joins the contemporary cognitive-narratological debate on whether readers bring to bear on fictional characters the folk psychology that they apply to real people. While arguing for a continuity in readers’ engagement with real and fictional minds, I point out that some literary techniques harness our imaginative, empathic skills to a greater degree than is likely in real life. Specifically, internally focalized texts encourage readers t…
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer
Game scholars have discussed both the ways in which video games structurally differ from literary fiction and the ways in which they remediate motifs and narrative strategies from it. In this article, I reverse the direction of that exchange, arguing that video games are disclosing new perspectives on both literary writing and literary interpretation. My focus is on how literature can integrate ludic strategies on a formal level, rather than by m…
Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations
In this essay, we identify and discuss three motifs that enable literary narrative to perform a shift from a phenomenological, common-sense understanding of the body to the far more challenging nonhuman corporeality articulated by poststructuralist theorists in dialogue with Deleuze and Guattari’s work. We argue that such reconceptualization of the body via narrative form aligns closely with contemporary debates surrounding the Anthropocene and m…
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure f…
Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity
In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101-12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers of temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them "monumental" time and "mortal" time. The former is connected with authority and British imperial politics; the latter is the subjective, highly malleable time of human experience. But there is another time, also active in Woolf's novel and in her oeuvre more generally, that…
Naïve Physics and Cosmic Perspective-Taking in Dante’s Commedia and Calvino’s Cosmicomiche
Naïve Physics and Cosmic Perspective-Taking in Dante’s Commedia and Calvino’s Cosmicomiche Marco Caracciolo Introduction One of the recurrent motifs in the tradition of the “katabasis,” or journey to the underworld, in Western literature, is that of the visitor trying to embrace the incorporeal soul of a dead relative or friend. We find this motif in Homer’s Odyssey, later in the Aeneid, and finally in the Commedia, where Dante attempts to embrac…
Leaping into Space: The Two Aesthetics ofTo the Lighthouse
This essay argues against the prevalent view of the aesthetics implicit in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. It is an aesthetics of closure, an attempt to make "of the moment something permanent" (Woolf 2000a [1927]: 176), which is usually associated (as are Woolf's own theoretical statements) with the novel. This "formalism," no doubt related to Roger Fry's art criticism, takes fictional shape in the character of Mrs. Ramsay. In fact, it is by…
Embodiment at the Crossroads: Some Open Questions between Literary Interpretation and Cognitive Science
Book Review| June 01 2013 Embodiment at the Crossroads:some Open Questions between Literary Interpretation and Cognitive Science Bolens, Guillemette, The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xii + 233 pp. Marco Caracciolo Marco Caracciolo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 233–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-…
The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach
Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses, the experiential level of their engagement with narrative remains relatively undertheorized. Building on theories of experience and embodiment within today's "second-generation" cognitive science, a…
Beyond Other Minds: Fictional Characters, Mental Simulation, and “Unnatural” Experiences
My essay joins the contemporary cognitive-narratological debate on whether readers bring to bear on fictional characters the folk psychology that they apply to real people. While arguing for a continuity in readers’ engagement with real and fictional minds, I point out that some literary techniques harness our imaginative, empathic skills to a greater degree than is likely in real life. Specifically, internally focalized texts encourage readers t…
Two child narrators: Defamiliarization, empathy, and reader-response in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident and Emma Donoghue's Room
Drawing on a corpus of online reviews, my article carries out a qualitative study of readers' responses to the child narrators of two contemporary novels, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) and Emma Donoghue's Room (2010). What these narrators have in common is that they are both are affected by developmental disorders: Christopher, the protagonist of The Curious Incident, is on the autistic spectrum, whereas J…
Naïve Physics and Cosmic Perspective-Taking in Dante’s Commedia and Calvino’s Cosmicomiche
Naïve Physics and Cosmic Perspective-Taking in Dante’s Commedia and Calvino’s Cosmicomiche Marco Caracciolo Introduction One of the recurrent motifs in the tradition of the “katabasis,” or journey to the underworld, in Western literature, is that of the visitor trying to embrace the incorporeal soul of a dead relative or friend. We find this motif in Homer’s Odyssey, later in the Aeneid, and finally in the Commedia, where Dante attempts to embrac…
Cognitive Literary Studies and the Status of Interpretation: An Attempt at Conceptual Mapping
What is the role of interpretation—the close reading of individual texts—in cognitive literary studies? In attempting to come to grips with this vexed question, my article focuses on the complex divides that separate the practice of interpretation from cognitive-scientific research. I argue that cognitive literary studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and I survey lines of research that have already put into pr…
Mimesis
Among literary-theoretical concepts, mimesis has one of the longest histories, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In the twentieth century, discussion of mimesis resulted in a number of highly influential contributions, including Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis and Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative. In this article, we use Ricoeur’s tripartite model of mimesis as a catalyst for a dialogue between unnatural and cognitive approaches to narrative. In the f…
Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations
In this essay, we identify and discuss three motifs that enable literary narrative to perform a shift from a phenomenological, common-sense understanding of the body to the far more challenging nonhuman corporeality articulated by poststructuralist theorists in dialogue with Deleuze and Guattari’s work. We argue that such reconceptualization of the body via narrative form aligns closely with contemporary debates surrounding the Anthropocene and m…
Strange birds and uncertain futures in Anthropocene fiction
Climate change may be a scientific certainty, but the magnitude of its impact on the future of humanity – and of the Earth’s ecosystems – cannot be predicted with absolute precision, given the sheer number of factors involved. In this article, I explore two fictional works – Jeff VanderMeer’s novella The Strange Bird and Alexis Wright’s novel The Swan Book – that establish a connection between the uncertainty surrounding the climate crisis and an…
Being Moved by Nature in the Anthropocene: On the Limits of the Ecological Sublime
According to recent accounts, we experience the emotion of “being moved” when a situation brings into play our core values. What are the core values evoked by nonhuman landscapes, however, particularly as the distinction between man-made and natural environments becomes increasingly blurry in the so-called Anthropocene? That is the central question tackled by this article. I start by rethinking the sublime as an affect that, since Romanticism, ha…
Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene
Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity
In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101-12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers of temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them "monumental" time and "mortal" time. The former is connected with authority and British imperial politics; the latter is the subjective, highly malleable time of human experience. But there is another time, also active in Woolf's novel and in her oeuvre more generally, that…
Reading Anthropocene Science: Literary Templates and the Anthropocene Working Group
The discourse surrounding the Anthropocene is rich in references to literary genres, tropes and plotlines. In this article, we examine the way in which these references surface in the interviews with leading Anthropocene Working Group scientists featured in Steve Bradshaw’s 2015 documentary Anthropocene. Thinking about the Anthropocene as a “tragedy” or a “fable” (to name two genres mentioned by the interviewees) is more than a rhetorical device:…
Anthropocene, literature, and econarratology: An interview with Marco Caracciolo
Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he led the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating the Mesh.” (2017–2022). His work explores the phenomenology of narrative, or the structure of the experiences afforded by literary fiction and other narrative media. He is the author of several books including the most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (2022) and Contemporar…
Climate Change and the Ironies of Omniscience in Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
Scholars in ecocriticism have frequently argued that the environmental crisis calls for an overhaul of the realist novel, which is inadequate at conveying the global scale and ramifications of climate change and related anthropogenic disruptions to the Earth system. In this article, I explore how a centerpiece of nineteenth-century realist fiction, the omniscient narrator, may be reimagined to speak to the imaginative challenges of climate change…
Child Minds at the End of the World
This article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapocalyptic scenarios. It examines three contemporary novels from profoundly different geographic contexts—Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary, Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna, and Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness—that evoke a child’s experience of societal collapse in the wake of a catastrophic event. Diverse meanings come to the fore as these novels outline, through …
Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency: An interview-based investigation
Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities …
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…
From the museum of civilisation to The Octopus Museum: Curating the Anthropocene in Contemporary Literature
This article argues that the museum is a significant trope in contemporary literature that engages with the climate crisis. With its destabilisation of relations between human communities and the nonhuman world, the Anthropocene – Paul Crutzen’s influential (if controversial) name for the current geological period – troubles conceptual binaries and epistemological categories that are central to Western modernity. Through two case studies, Flights…
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure f…
Rabbit Holes and Butterfly Effects: Narrative Probabilities and Climate Science
Probability is a central concept in scientific models of causation.When I say, for instance, that 'smoking causes lung cancer,' I am not implying that smoking will necessarily result in lung cancer; I am only suggesting a strong (causal) relationship between smoking habits and the incidence of lung cancer.That relationship is probabilistic and based on statistical models which help scientists distinguish merely accidental outcomes from causal lin…
The scientific lab: Sacrifice Zones as Contact Zones
The scientific laboratory is often construed as a space in which laboratory animals are sacrificed on the altar of biomedical progress. However, this understanding of nonhuman animals raises significant ethical concerns and appears complicit in the anthropocentric and colonial violence that creates sacrifice zones in Naomi Klein’s sense. In this article, we argue that contemporary literature can work towards an imaginative and affective reframing…
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer
Game scholars have discussed both the ways in which video games structurally differ from literary fiction and the ways in which they remediate motifs and narrative strategies from it. In this article, I reverse the direction of that exchange, arguing that video games are disclosing new perspectives on both literary writing and literary interpretation. My focus is on how literature can integrate ludic strategies on a formal level, rather than by m…
On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring
The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal. Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by digital media, the author situates the games vis-à-vis a number of curr…
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