Marie-Laure Ryan's Articles on Narrative Theory

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2024 “The Fictionality of Games and the Ludic Nature of Fiction: Make-Believe, Immersion, Play." The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief , edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo and Françoise Lavocat. Routledge 2023, 41-51.

2023 "Objects, Narratives, Museums." Time and Space. Edited by Edited by Maria de Rosário Monteiro, Mário S. Ming Kong and Maria Joao Pereira Neto, CRC Press, London.

2023 "Transmedial Narratology and Transmedia Storytelling." With Raphael Baroni and Anais Goudmand. J. Bruhn et al. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality.

2023 "Narratology for Game Studies." The Encyclopedia of Ludic Terms

2022. Immersion. Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK). Berlin: De Gruyter.

2022. “Playing Games with the Truth: Tabloid Stories, Urban Legends, Tall Tales and Bullshit.” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory.Eds. Maria Mäkelä and Paul Dawson. Routledge 2022, 205-17.

2022. “Four Types of Textual Space and their Manifestations in Digital Narrative.” Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination. Ed. Dan Punday. Routledge 2022, 1-19.

2021. "How Stories Relate to Places? Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence as Literary Tourism.” Locating Imagination, eds. Stijn Reijnders, Abby Waysdorf, Leonieke Bolderman and Nicky van Es. London: Blackwell, 265-82.

2021. "Media, Genres, Facts and Truth: Revisiting Basic Categories of Narrative Diversification.” (manuscript) Neohelicon. Printed version for reference (Cannot be downloaded or printed)

2021 “Coda: Radio Drama Between Mimetic and Diegetic Presentation.” Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama. Eds. Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf. Ohio State University Press. 215-23.

2020. “Fact, Fiction and Media.” Narrative Factuality: A Handbook. Eds. Monika Fludrnik and Marie-Laure Ryan, in cooperation with Hanna Specker. Berlin: De Gruyter: 2020. 75-94.

2020. "Transmedia Storytelling and its Discourses” Transmediations. Communication Across Media Borders. Eds. Lars Ellestrøm and Niklas Samose. London: Routledge. 17-30.2020.

2020. "Narrative Cartography.” The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Ed. Douglas Richardson. Wiley Publishers.

2019. "Virtuality.” Critical Terms in Futures Sudies. Ed. Heike Paul. Palgrave McMillan (2019): 335-341.

2019. "Fiction: Serious Business or Play-world for the Imagination ?” (Response to Richard Walsh). Style 53.4 (2019): 434-38.

2019. "Sharpiegate as Network of Stories" Instrumental Narrative blog.

2019. “Narrative as/and Complex Systems”. Approaches to Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Evolution, Embodiment. Eds. Marina Grishakova and Maria Pulaki. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. 29-55.

2019. Interview with Evangelia Moula, Neospaidagogos

2018. “On the Eloquence and Silence of Objects: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence.” NALANS journal

2018. “What are Characters Made Of? Textual, Philosophical and ‘World’ Approaches to Character Ontology. Neohelicon.

2018. “Photos, Facts and Fiction.Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.<

2018. “Narrative mapping as cognitive activity and as active participation in storyworlds.Frontiers of Narrative Studies (De Gruyter).

2017. “Narrative.” A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory. Eds. Sarah Blacker, Imre Szeman and Justin Sully. London: Blackwell 2017, 517-30.

2017. “Transmedia Storytelling as Narrative Practice.” The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies , ed. Thomas Leitch. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 527-42.

2017. “Transmedia Narratology and Transmedia Storytelling.” Artnodes.

2017. “The Aesthetics of Proliferation.”World Building. Transmedia, Fans, Industries, ed. Marta Boni. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univerity Press.

2016. “Digital Narrative : Negociating a Path Between Experimental Writing and Popular Culture.” Comparative Critical Studies13.13 (2016), University of Edinburgh Press. 331-52.

2016. “Response to Brian Richardson’s Target Essay ‘Unnatural Narratology’.” Style 50.4, 478-83.

2016. “Narrative.” Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Eds. Henry Lowood and Raifort Guins. MIT Press 2016, 335-41.

2016. Interview with Giuliana Fenech on multisensorial art.” CounterText, Volume 2 Issue 3, pp. 271-282.

2016. “Sequence, Linearity, Spatiality, or: Why Be Afraid of Fixed Narrative Order.” Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratologies. Eds. Raphaël Baroni & Françoise Revaz. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2016, 176-93.

2015.“Texts, Worlds, Stories: Narrative Worlds as Cognitive and Ontological Concept.Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds. Ed. Mari Hatavera, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, and Frans Mäyrä. London: Routledge, 13-28.

2015. “Transmedia Storytelling: Industry Buzzword or New Narrative Experience?” Storyworlds. 7.2 (2015), 1-20.
Whole text on Academia.edu

2014. "My Narratology." Interview for the journal Diegesis.

2013. “Transmedial Storytelling and Transfictionality.Poetics Today 34.3, 362-88.

2013. “Ritual Studies and Narratology: What Can They Do For Each Other.” Ritual and Narrative; Theory—History—Media. Eds. Vera Nünning, Jan Rupp and Gregor Ahn. Transcript Verlag. 27-49.

2013. “Space, Place and Narrative.” Medienkonvergenz-Transdisziplinär. Ed. Stephan Fuessel. Vol 1. of the book series Media Convergence of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 109-27.

2011. “Kinds of Minds: On Alan Palmer’s ‘Social Minds.’Style. 54.4, 654-59.

2011. “Narrative/Science Entanglements: On the Thousand and One Literary Lives of Schrödinger’s Cat.” Narrative, 19.1. 171-186
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2011. “Meaning, Intent, and the Implied Author.” Style. 45.1 , 29-47
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2011. “Narrativity and its Modes as Culture-Transcending Analytical Categories.” Japan Forum 21 (3), 307-323.

2010. “Narratology and Cognitive Science: A Problematic Relation" Style 44, no 4, 469-95.>

2009 “Temporal Paradoxes in Narrative. ” Style 43.2, 142-64.
Abstract

2009. “Space” Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hühn. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 420-33

2009 “Narrative in Other Media” (than literature). Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hühn. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 263-81

2009. “From Narrative Games to Playable Stories: Towards a Poetics of Interactive Narrative.Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 1.1 (2009), 433-60.

2009 “Cheap Plot Tricks, Plot Holes, and Narrative Design.” Narrative 17.1, 56-75
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2008. “Transfictionality Across Media” and "Narrative in Virtual Worlds."In: Theorizing Narrativity. Eds. John Pier and José Angel García. Berlin: De Gruyter. 385-417.

2007. "Diagramming Narrative." Semiotica 165, 1-4, 11-40
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2007. “Toward a Definition of Narrative.” The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2006. "Semantics, Pragmatics and Narrativity: A Response to David Rudrum." Narrative 14.2, 188-196.
See "In defense of definition," my response to Rudrum's response:

2005. "On the Theoretical Foundations of Transmedial Narratology.” Narrative Beyond Literary Criticism. Ed. Jan Christoph Meister with Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schermus and Malte Stein. Berlin: De Gruyter.1-23.

2005. "Narrative." Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.

2005. "Media and Narrative." Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.

2003. “On Defining Narrative Media.” Image and Narrative 6.

2003. >"Cognitive Maps and the Construction of Narrative Space." Abstract. Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Ed. David Herman. Stanford: Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

2003. "Narrative Cartography: Toward a Visual Narratology." Abstract. What is Narratology ? Ed. Tom Kindt. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2001. "The Narratorial Functions: Breaking Down a Theoretical Primitive."Abstract. Narrative 9.2, 146-152.

1999. "Cyberage Narratology: Computers, Metaphor and Narrative."Abstract. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 113-141.

1998. "Taking Risks With the Truth: The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Human Reality." Abstract. Narrative Inquiry 8.2, 419-427.

1995. "Allegories of Immersion: Virtual Narration in Postmodern Fiction." Abstract. Style 29.2, 262-286.

1993. "Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot in the Baseball Broadcast." Abstract. Narrative 1.2, 138-155.

1993. "Narrator," "Narratee," "Narrative Code" and "Narratology" (the latter with Ernst van Alphen). Entries for the Dictionary of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Ed. Irena K. Makaryk, Toronto UP, pp. 110-116 and 598-601.

1992. "The Modes of Narrativity and their Visual Metaphors. Abstract. Style 26.3, 368-387.
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1990. "Stacks, Frames and Boundaries, or Narrative as Computer Language." Poetics Today 11.4, 873-900.

1992 [1988]. "In Search of the Narrative Theme. Trans. of a French original by Stacie Marinelli. The Return of Thematic Criticism. Ed. Werner Sollors, Harvard English Studies 18, Cambridge and London: Harvard UP 1992,169-188.

1987. "The Window Structure of Narrative Discourse." Abstract. Semiotica 64.1/2, 59-81.
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1986. "Embedded Narratives and Tellability." Abstract. Style 20.3:319-340.

1986. "Embedded Narratives and the Structure of Plans."Abstract. Text 6.1:107- 142.

1981. "The Pragmatics of Personal and Impersonal Fiction." Abstract. Poetics 10:517-539.

1981. "Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps: Matrix of a Phenomenology of Reading." L'Esprit Créateur 23.2, 60-69.


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