{"product_id":"unnatural-narrative-impossible-worlds-in-fiction-and-drama-9780803278684","title":"Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003eA talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space are not only common in today's world of postmodernist literature but can also be found throughout the history of literature. Examples include the beast fable, the heroic epic, the romance, the eighteenth-century circulation novel, the Gothic novel, the ghost play, the fantasy narrative, and the science-fiction novel, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnnatural Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or \"the unnatural\" throughout British and American literary history. Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory, and possible-worlds theory, \u003ci\u003eUnnatural Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rigorous and engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields for individual readers as well as literary culture. Jan Alber demonstrates compelling interpretations of the unnatural in literature and shows the ways in which such unnatural phenomena become conventional in readers' minds, altogether expanding our sense of the imaginable and informing new structures and genres of narrative engagement.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Alber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803278684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Alber\u003c\/b\u003e is AIAS-COFUND (Marie Curie) Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film\u003c\/i\u003e and has coedited several collections, including \u003ci\u003eStones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Unnatural Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003ePostclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40139364925555,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2edc097a-85f6-4b0a-ba68-6c7bb57d3798.jpg?v=1654434692","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/unnatural-narrative-impossible-worlds-in-fiction-and-drama-9780803278684","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}