BUILDING IMAGINARY WORLDS

Mark J.P. Wolfs study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, rad io, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imagina ry worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of t hemselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worldswhich are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in natureare compellin g objects o...[Read more]