Overview
- New approach to complex systems thinking and understanding
- Interdisciplinary approach to narrative theory and understanding complex narratives
- Authors among the leading experts in this domain
- Chapter 17 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 License
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About this book
This book stages a dialogue between international researchers from the broad fields of complexity science and narrative studies. It presents an edited collection of chapters on aspects of how narrative theory from the humanities may be exploited to understand, explain, describe, and communicate aspects of complex systems, such as their emergent properties, feedbacks, and downwards causation; and how ideas from complexity science can inform narrative theory, and help explain, understand, and construct new, more complex models of narrative as a cognitive faculty and as a pervasive cultural form in new and old media.
The book is suitable for academics, practitioners, and professionals, and postgraduates in complex systems, narrative theory, literary and film studies, new media and game studies, and science communication.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard Walsh is a member of the Dept. of English and Related Literature in the University of York. He teaches modules in American literature and in theories of story, covering fiction and non-fiction, the earliest years of cinema, and graphic novels, as well as narratives in digital and interactive media. Susan Stepney is a professor of Computer Science in the University of York. Her main area of interest is non-standard computation, in particular bioinspired algorithms, complex adaptive systems, emergent properties, and nanite assemblers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrating Complexity
Editors: Richard Walsh, Susan Stepney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64714-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64712-8Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09726-4Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64714-2Published: 31 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 322
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Media Design, Media Studies, Screen Studies, Creative Writing