This essay explores how theoretical physics, narratology, and narrative itself deal with the idea that reality consists of a plurality of worlds. In physics, the existence of parallel universes has been postulated on the cosmic level to describe what lies on the other side of black holes and, on the level of subatomic particles, to avoid the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. In narratology, the p...

INTRODUCTION This paper offers an alternative to the agonistic debate presented by Gonzalo Frasca in “Ludologists Love Stories Too,” in Level Up, DiGRA 2003 Conference Proceedings [1]. While Frasca’s position is that the ludology/narratology debate is spurious and fraught with misunderstandings, in labeling scholars as “ludologists” or “narratologists,” his paper only deepens the gap by further...

ABSTRACT The construction of threats and enemies is a constant in international politics, presidential rhetoric plays an important role this process. In article, we show how recent US speeches articulate narratives representations enemies. We will focus on the State Union addresses given by Bill Clinton (1993-2001), George W. Bush (2001-2009), Barack Obama (2009-2013), thus encompassing 20 year...

Digital storytelling techniques and persuasive communications are becoming increasingly intertwined realized in cultural discourses such as heritage, environmental activism, politics. Rhetorical theory has grounded influenced communication practice since the age of oration, society is undergoing new mediatization, digital rhetorical can be reexamined applied to nonfiction narratives for improve...

This essay offers a comparative analysis of Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman and its 2021 sequel directed by Nia DaCosta. Through an intertextual approach informed gothic studies, narratology, critical race theory, the shows how DaCosta’s film establishes transformative relationship with predecessor. In film, rewrites story original, disrupts stereotypical representation Blackness, appropriates hor...

As its main goal, this study seeks to contribute the analysis of narrative discourse by investigating strategies and devices provided modern prose fictions like D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox for constructing/representing fictional minds or consciousness characters in texts. paper is structured two sections. Drawing from insights both Classical Poststructuralist narratology, theoretical section brings...

Abstract Paul Cobley stated that the semiotics of narrative should not be conflated with narratology. This statement becomes a starting point for an inquiry into by looking at concept signs and its future as new theory narrative. Narrative embedding semiotic processes convey meaning in areas prelinguistic, linguistic, extralinguistic way signs, models, semiosis. What is more, modeling enables f...

This research examines the gender inequality experienced by Gloria in Mekar Karena Memar's novel Alex L. Tobing from Gerard Genette's narratology theory. The author is interested studying because, this novel, main character named fighting against that she experiences. makes issue attractive to because women generally only received improper treatment without daring do anything those days. of use...