“…This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of different media and national and institutional sites. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Literature that returns to life and the mystique of age / Marta Cerezo Moreno and Nieves Pascual Soter -- Keeping appointments with the past : time, place, and narrative identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Anna MacDonald -- Haunted by a traumatic past : age, memory, and narrative identitiy in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin / Teresa Gilbert -- "The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Early cinema and narrativity -- Narrative problems -- In search of the first film narrative -- Early narratology : mimesis and diegesis -- Textual narrative and staged narrative -- Narration and monstration -- The narrator and the monstrator -- Narration and monstration in the cinema -- The film narrative system -- The origins of the film narrator -- Narrator(s) -- A monstrative entertainment, assisted by narration -- Delegated film narrators…”

“…Narrative universals and human emotion…”

“…Conscience and wisdom in Newman's narrative…”

“…Theory and interpretation of narrative…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing across the frontier -- Storytelling and performance in medieval Iberian frametale and Maqāma -- The cultural context of the translation of Calila e Dimna -- Reconquest ideology and Andalusī narrative practice in the Conde Lucanor -- The Libro de buen amor and the medieval Iberian Maqāma -- Social change, misogyny, and the Maqāma in Jaume Roig's Spill…”

“…Proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of old concepts like fiction, reality and narrativity applied to actual worldwide television series. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies -- The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen -- The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state -- The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history…”
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