Routledge Narrative Theory, Literature & New Media - Routledge

This interdisciplinary exploration examines narrative across diverse media including literature, digital games, reality TV, online communities, and oral history databases. The book investigates how storyworlds function as mental constructs and what kinds of cognitive processes embed themselves within narratives. Drawing on recent cognitive-scientific developments, it addresses two fundamental questions: the nature of storyworld construction and the mental functioning that narratives contain. From horror to hallucinations, from sadomasochism to oral histories, the Routledge volume offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how minds and worlds become essential to narrative interpretation in contemporary contexts, making it valuable for scholars and students of narrative theory, literature, cognitive psychology, and media studies.