Ice Breakers
Meet over 80 hockey icons and learn the ins and outs of the game in this accessible, illustrated guide for kids ages 8 to 12. Featuring a foreword by Jim Craig, a member of the legendary 1980 US Olympic hockey team, Ice Breakers is the kid-friendl...
With Bodies
We read not only with our eyes and minds, but with our entire body. In With Bodies, Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen move systematically through all elements of narrative and put them into dialogue with recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy of mind to investigate what it means to read literary narratives bodily. They draw their findings from a wide corpus of material-narratives from antiquity to the present and composed in various languages, from Apuleius's Metamorphoses to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall-and craft their embodied narratology to retool current theories about authors, narrators and characters, time and space in storyworlds, and plot. Their investigation serves as a foundation for wider discussions on embodied narratology's contributions to literary history, computation and AI, posthumanism, gender studies, and world literature.
Experientiality of Narrative
Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) respon...
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty
Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities
Winner of the 2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world. Here, slowness is not a matter of measurable time but a transformative experience for audiences of contemporary narratives engaging with the ecological crisis. While climate change is a scientific abstraction, the imagination of slowness turns it into a deeply embodied and affective experience. Marco Caracciolo explores the value of slowness in dialogue with a wide range of narratives in various media, from prose fiction to comic books to video games. He argues that we need patience and an eye for complex patterns in order to recognize the multiple threads that link human communities and the slow-moving processes of climate and geological history. Decelerating attention offers important insight into human societies’
Experientiality of Narrative
Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) respon...
Crusts: The Revised Edition
The revised edition of¿Crusts¿is a beautiful and thorough collection of artisanal baking recipes. Learn how to make perfectly baked breads, pies, pastries, pizza, and flatbreads. From sourdough and yeast loaves exploring local and regional wheat v...
On Soulsring Worlds
The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal. Arguing that the games are ...