In the epoch of Anthropocene environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with “multiplicity other material bodies and formations'' across space time (Khan, 2012, p. 42). Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2014) centres around entanglement scenario betwee...

With the introduction of the computer, narrative experiences can be found in new media applications as diverse as MUDs, arcade games and 3D immersive environments and new applications are being created all the time. The form these narrative experiences take are as diverse as their mediums: from the experiential stories of MUDs to the intricate branching plot paths of adventure games. But like w...

The metaphysical concerns of David Shahar's short stories lead repeatedly to a pronounced metanarrative focus in this fiction. Metanarrative awareness develops on three complementary levels of Shahar's work: a) as explicit textual commentary by the narrator (e.g. Si'ur rison, and others); b) as complexities of narrative organization that struggle against the inescapably discrete and discursive ...

In the mid-1970s, a number of artists in Southern California made works that merged self-portraiture, material documents, life narrative, and fiction. The 1976 exhibition Autobiographical Fantasies...

Abstract Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he led the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating Mesh.” (2017–2022). His work explores phenomenology narrative, or structure experiences afforded by literary fiction other narrative media. He author several books including most recently Slow Narrative Nonhuman Materialities (202...

In her article "Young Adults in Sweden on Reading Literary Fiction in Print and Electronic Media" Skans Kersti Nilsson analyses 16-25 year old young adults' reflections on the reading of fiction in printed books versus electronic media. In Nilsson's study focus group interviews were conducted to gauge how conversations on the importance of reading literary fiction develop inside and outside the...