Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments All the contributions collected in this volume are based on papers presented at the international conference Storyworlds across Media: Mediality—Multimodality—Transmediality, which took place from June 30 to July 2, 2011, at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany. We are greatly indebted to Karl N. Renner and his colleagues from the Research Unit Media Convergence and the Transmedial Narration Work Group for inviting us to stay in Mainz and for coorganizing the conference with us. Patrick Colm Hogan’s contribution to this volume, “Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama: Selection, Time, and Construal in Hamlet,” first appeared in Hogan’s How Authors’ Minds Make Stories (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print). Jesper Juul’s contribution to this volume, “On Absent Carrot Sticks: The Level of Abstraction in Video Games,” contains portions of his chapter “A Certain Level of Abstraction” in Situated Play: DiGRA 2007 Conference Proceedings, ed. Akira Baba (Tokyo: DiGRA Japan, 2007. 510– 15. Print). Storyworlds across Media ...