Episode 5: The Library as Infinite Space, Part II

In which we examine the unnatural…

Episode 5 Footnotes

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5. Kraatila, Elise. “Conspicuous Fabrications.” Narrative Inquiry, vol. 29, no. 2, 2019, pp. 418–433, https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19016.kra. 

6. Alber, Jan, et al. “Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models.” Narrative, vol. 18, no. 2, 2010, pp. 113–136, https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.0.0042.

7. Alber, Jan. “Unnatural Narratology: The Systematic Study of Anti-Mimeticism.” Literature Compass, vol. 10, no. 5, 2013, pp. 449–460, https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12065. 

8. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory. Indiana University Press, 1991.

9. Hackwith, A. J. The Archive of the Forgotten (A Novel from Hell's Library Book 2). Ace, 2020.

10. Hackwith, Archive

11. Cogman, Genevieve. The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library Book 7). Ace, 2020.

12. De Smedt, Johan, and Helen De Cruz. “The Epistemic Value of Speculative Fiction.” Midwest Studies In Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 58–77, https://doi.org/10.1111/misp.12035. 

13. Cogman, Genevieve. The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library Book 1). Ace, 2016.

14. Sellnow, Deanna D. The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts. SAGE, 2018.

15. Alber, Jan. “Logical Contradictions, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Embodied Mind.” Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology, edited by Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2019.