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A 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.Unnatural Narrative 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, Unnatural Narrative 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.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. --- Fiction --- Drama --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Criticism --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature --- History and criticism --- Drama. --- Fiction. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Narration (Rhetoric).

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This collection of essays looks at two important manifestations of postclassical narratology, namely transmedial narratology on the one hand, and unnatural narratology on the other. The articles deal with films, graphic novels, computer games, web series, the performing arts, journalism, reality games, music, musicals, and the representation of impossibilities. The essays demonstrate how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical structuralist narratology. The articles thus contribute to the further development of both transmedial and unnatural narrative theory, two of the most important manifestations of postclassical narratology.

Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- Mass communications --- Narration --- Analyse du discours narratif --- Médias et langage --- Médias --- Mass media. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Mass media and language. --- 82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Erzähltheorie --- Intermedialität --- Narration. --- Médias et langage. --- Analyse du discours narratif. --- Médias. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Erzähltheorie. --- Intermedialität. --- Language and mass media --- Language and languages --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Mass media --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Narrative theory. --- film studies. --- literary studies. --- media studies.