ISSN 1946-2204
eISSN 2156-7204
Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative theory. Featuring cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across a variety of media, including face-to-face interaction, literary writing, film and television, virtual environments, historiography, journalism, and graphic narratives, the journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines to promote new and innovate approaches to narrative research and understanding.
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Storyworlds is currently indexed in ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, and MLA International Bibliography.
Volume 13, Number 2 (Winter 2021)
Contents
“I want to tell you about Christmastown . . .”: The Navigation of Festive Narrative Tropes in The Nightmare Before Christmas
John D. Ayres
Metanarrative and Resonance in Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle: Book 1
Clara Verri
The Occasion in Rhetorical Narrative Theory: Encountering the Book in Ling Ma’s Severance
Daniel Punday
Minimal Departure and Fictional Narrative Situations
Kai Mikkonen
In Defense of Minimal Departure: A Response to Kai Mikkonen
Marie-Laure Ryan
Guidelines for Authors
This special issue seeks to address and theorize the complex interrelations and overlaps between narrative, politics, and public meaning making. Relevant topics in this context include, but are not limited to:
· the role of narrative in speeches by politicians and in election campaigns
· fictionality and factuality in political narratives
· alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy narratives
· storytelling and new social media
· the (multimodal) form and media affordances of political narratives
· (historical) narratives of political community and (trans-)national identity
· different kinds of disruptive narratives that challenge the status quo
· the role of fictional narratives as a counter-discourse of the political
· the role of utopia and dystopia in the twenty-first century and across different media
· political narratives and cognition
· empirical investigations of the political impact of stories
· post-postmodernism and politics
· the politics of algorithms and AI
Further details can be found here.
Please send a 500-word abstract by May 15, 2025 to Jan.Alber@anglistik.uni-giessen.de and Jan.Rupp@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Trending Articles - Summer 2021
"From Narrative Games to Playable Stories: Toward a Poetics of Interactive Narrative" (Vol. 1, 2009)
"Transmedia Storytelling: Industry Buzzword or New Narrative Experience?" (Vol. 7 No. 2, 2015)
"Understanding Narrative Hermeneutics" (Vol. 6 No. 2, 2014)
"Tell-Tale Rhythms: Embodiment and Narrative Discourse" (Vol. 6 No. 2, 2014)
"Knots, Story Lines, and Hermeneutical Lines: A Case Study" (Vol. 6 No. 2, 2014)
As online communities continue to widen their reach, so too does our list of peer-reviewed articles on various subjects including Journalism, Communal Narrative, Activism, Marketing, and Image Rehabilitation.
