NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0019
N. Lamerichs
{"title":"Protagonist to Empathy Machine: Exploring the Interpretive Communities and Affective Reception of Characters","authors":"N. Lamerichs","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"198 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42147969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0042
S. Tosca
{"title":"Response to Elizabeth Evans","authors":"S. Tosca","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"224 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44936539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0034
Kristine Jørgensen
{"title":"Companion Characters and Portal's Companion Cube: A Response to Ida Broni Christensen","authors":"Kristine Jørgensen","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"192 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41893691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0022
Elizabeth Evans
{"title":"Audiences, Industry, and Agency in Transmedial Character Transformation: Response to Susana Tosca","authors":"Elizabeth Evans","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"221 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43875397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0032
K. Mikkonen
{"title":"Voice Assistants and the Concept of Character: Response to Joleen Blom","authors":"K. Mikkonen","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"177 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47300704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0045
P. Bertetti
{"title":"Characters as Transtextual and Transmedial: A Reply to Mattia Thibault","authors":"P. Bertetti","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"238 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66329451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0008
Lukas R. A. Wilde, Shane Denson
{"title":"Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures—Who is Uncle Sam?","authors":"Lukas R. A. Wilde, Shane Denson","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This contribution examines Uncle Sam's development during the nineteenth century as an interesting case study for transmedial character theory, an increasingly common approach to the study of fictional characters. However, as Scolari, Bertetti, and Freeman have argued, \"older forms of transmedia franchises were constructed on character sharing rather than on the logics of a particular world\" (17). Characters were and still are in many cases the nodal points and intersections of various processes discussed as media convergence, yet the distinctions between \"actual\" characters and related terms such as \"cultural icons\" (Brooker) or \"serial figures\" (Denson and Mayer) remain somewhat contested and often hard to draw in practice. This contribution addresses these issues by investigating the nineteenth-century emergence and transformation of Uncle Sam as a recognizable figure within political cartoons. Without any overarching creative authority or any consistent \"storyworld\" to speak of, these cartoons lend themselves to recontextualizations by any artist able to uphold a recognizable iconography. In media-historical terms, political cartoons that did not merely comment upon actually existing public persons but instead developed their own inventory of allegorical figures are an important link between earlier, more \"static\" pictorial personifications of—and symbols for—countries and ideas and the later emergence of serial characters within comic books and other narrative media.","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"152 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47184758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0041
Jan-Noël Thon
{"title":"Reply to Roberta Pearson","authors":"Jan-Noël Thon","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"151 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44233264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NARRATIVEPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1353/nar.2022.0011
N. Lamerichs, Nieves Rosendo
{"title":"Affect and the Analysis of Transmedial Characters","authors":"N. Lamerichs, Nieves Rosendo","doi":"10.1353/nar.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Fans of games and media have generally been analyzed as social communities that invest in particular narratives. Their reception is not just critical, but affective, spanning a wide range of emotions from love and nostalgia to frustration. In this essay, I propose a model of affective reception that attends to both textual representation and affective responses of audiences. By drawing from affect theory, I conceptualize affect as a dynamic process with social, political, and temporal dimensions. I apply this model to the controversy around the playable character Kassandra from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, which functions as a case study to show how affective reception works in practice. Ultimately, I argue that to understand contemporary media and their characters, we need to look deeper into these affective responses of different interpretive communities.","PeriodicalId":45865,"journal":{"name":"NARRATIVE","volume":"30 1","pages":"197 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46736828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}