Fragmented Narrative sets out to explore the production and reception of fragmentary stories, analysing Twitter-based narrative practices. This timely volume will interest students, scholars and researchers of narrative, new media and language and communication studies.
Research has yet to fully grapple with the ways in which our media practices have been shaped by our engagement with increasingly fragmented media texts. This powerful book remedies that, showing how narrative still plays a fundamental role in our experience of tying together disparate pieces of information. Media platforms may evolve, but narrative still lies at the core of human existence.
Emiliano Trere, Cardiff University, UK
Neil Sadler is Lecturer in Translation at the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast. He holds an MA and PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester and his research centres on the uses and nature of multilingual narrative in digitally mediated contexts, particularly in the Arab world. His work has previously been published in New Media & Society and The Journal for North African Studies and he has contributed entries to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media and The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One - Theorising fragmented narrative: Knowing and being
Chapter Two - Telling stories with fragments: Vertical, horizontal and ambient narrative
Chapter Three - Interpreting fragmented stories I: Open texts, distanciation and writerly readers
Chapter Four - Interpreting fragmented stories II: Existential understanding, limited horizons and narrative forestructuring
Chapter Five - Narrative and truth: Correspondence, coherence and disclosure
Conclusion - Stories, Citizens and Being
Glossary of Heideggerian terms
Bibliography
Index