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Mimetic Narratives and the Poetics of Immersion - Raphaël Baroni - Épistémé
de Raphaël Baroni (auteur)
Collection : literary criticism
juillet 2026

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Présentation

From ancient epics to television series and from novels to immersive documentaries, certain narratives transport us to a different world. This book explores the specificity of these mimetic narratives, where the audience is plunged into an “imaginary scene” in which characters take shape, time thickens, and the future remains open.
Drawing on the latest research in cognitive, rhetoric, transmedial, and cultural narratology, Raphaël Baroni shows how mimetic narratives awaken our empathy and trigger suspense, curiosity, or surprise, and why they constitute a laboratory for ethical and existential experiences.
This book is not just a theoretical contribution, it is a deep-dive into the social and emotional power of stories, sheddinglight on both our need for fiction and the force of certain factual narratives.

“In this book, Baroni offers original insights into highly relevant questions in narratology” (Marie-Laure Ryan)

Sommaire

  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Mimetic Storytelling
  • 1 The Relevance of Being Irrelevant
  • 2 To Intrigue or to Explain? How to Convey What Happened
  • 3 Fact and Fiction: Pragmatic Constraints on Mimetic Nonfiction
  • Part 2. Mimetic Time
  • 4 Analepsis and Flashback: Dramatizing Anachronyms
  • 5 Scenes and Summary: Dramatizing Rhythm
  • 6 The Musicality of Plot: Dramatizing Duration
  • Part 3. Mimetic Storyworlds
  • 7 Thickness, Inscrutability, and Freedom of Characters
  • 8 Virtualities: A Forking Path for Narrative Progression
  • 9 Knowing but Hoping: The Dynamics of Rereading
  • Conclusion. Powers and Limits of Mimetic Narratives
  • List of Illustrations
  • Works Cited
  • Table of Contents

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Informations

Éditeur : Épistémé

Auteur(s) : Raphaël Baroni

Collection : literary criticism

Publication : 29 juillet 2026

Édition : 1re édition

Support(s) : Livre papier

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 272

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 140 x 205

Poids (en grammes) : 1

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782889157792

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