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Hartmut Koenitz / Gabriele Ferri / Mads Haahr / Digdem Sezen / Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen (Eds.): Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge 2015 (= Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Design 7). Pp. 286. GPB 90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-78239-6

Modern biblical scholarship (of the post war era) has shown that the narrative traditions that underlie the canonical gospels are very adaptive as they have been tailored to suit different communicative situations. In this context Luke’s Merciful Samaritan represents an interesting object of study. Luke…

While scientific and religious narratives use distinct discourse strategies to reach different audiences, the documentary film Journey of the Universe combines scientific and humanistic perspectives to narrate the origin and evolution of the universe, life on Earth, and human consciousness. This science-based…

Paul A. Cohen: History and Popular Memory. The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press 2014. 279 S. GBP 50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-53729-2

David Ciccoricco: Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2015 (= Frontiers of Narrative Series). 317 pp. USD 55.00. ISBN 978-0-8032-4837-3

Literary short texts of the Early Modern Period, like fables, tales and Merry tales, are meant to be simple forms of teaching, divided as they often are into two parts: narratio and moralisatio. The moralisatio as a form of propositionally structured knowledge has thereby been seen as the essential part…

When toddlers and younger children first encounter stories, they evince a strong tendency to act them out. They use role play and toys for enactment and thereby to experience the dynamics of a storyline, to pursue possible variations, to embody divergent perspectives, to learn about characters and their…

Neil Cohn (Ed.): The Visual Narrative Reader. New York: Bloomsbury 2016. 349 pp. USD 39.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-4725-8559-2

Irmtraud Huber: Present-Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction. A Narratological Overview. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016 (= Palgrave Pivot). 123 pp. GBP 54.99. ISBN 978-1-137-56212-8