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Slow Narrative Across Media

Slow Narrative Across Media

Hardcover

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 081421567X
ISBN13: 9780814215678
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: May 20 2024
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Slowness is frequently seen as a response to modernity's cult of speed and efficiency, and its influence in contemporary culture can be felt in artistic trends such as slow cinema or slow TV. Despite the popularity of these labels, however, slowness remains undertheorized in contemporary narrative scholarship. What makes a narrative slow, and what conceptual and analytical tools are best suited to account for this slowness? Is slowness a feature of certain narratives, an experiential response to these narratives, or both? How is narrative slowness related to the pace and rhythm of plot, and how does it carry cultural significance?

Slow Narrative across Media illuminates the concept of slow narrative and demonstrates how it manifests across media forms: from short stories to novel cycles, to comics, to music, to experimental film. Led by editors Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova, contributors draw on cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative as well as on econarratology to bring into focus both the media-specific ways in which narrative evokes slowness and the usefulness of a transmedial approach to this phenomenon.

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