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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>We are pleased to announce the publication of the new book: “The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>published by Routledge. (ISBN 9781032699752 / 196 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations / November 15, 2024).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Edited by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla (Osaka University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Francisco Sáez de Adana (University of Alcalá) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Available at: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Multiverse-as-Theory-in-Postmodern-Speculative-Fictional-Narratives/CabreraTorrecilla-SaezdeAdana/p/book/9781032699752">https://www.routledge.com/The-Multiverse-as-Theory-in-Postmodern-Speculative-Fictional-Narratives/CabreraTorrecilla-SaezdeAdana/p/book/9781032699752</a> / </span><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781032699776/multiverse-theory-postmodern-speculative-fictional-narratives-ang%C3%A9lica-cabrera-torrecilla-francisco-s%C3%A1ez-de-adana"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781032699776/multiverse-theory-postmodern-speculative-fictional-narratives-ang%C3%A9lica-cabrera-torrecilla-francisco-s%C3%A1ez-de-adana</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'> considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore diverse issues to bridge ideas across cultural, social, and philosophical analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Taking a cross-cultural approach, the book centres around the critical engagements that literary and media texts have with the representations of the multiverse, beyond considering this subject as a mere rhetorical flourish or a passing fad. A diverse and international team of authors engage with the multiverse from the point of view of “other worlds,” understanding it not as the appearance of another independent world, but as the collision of two or more different worlds into one of them. From this key finding, the multiverse encourages us to pay attention to the influence that fiction exerts on narratives and world-building, providing possible frameworks to rethink critical aspects of temporality, space, self, society, and culture in contemporary times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>This pioneering work will interest students and scholars working in the areas of media and cultural studies, comparative literature, popular culture studies, speculative fiction, and transmedia studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Contents:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>1. <b>Introduction</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>The Multiverse as Fictional Formation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla and Francisco Sáez de Adana <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>2. Towards the Multiverse as a Theory for Speculative Fictions, a Proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>PART I The Multiverse as Theoretical Method for Written-Visual Fictions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>3 The Quest for Reality as Lost Paradise: Philip K. Dick’s “False Worlds” Series<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Alejo Steimberg<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>4 “Traveling through a Dimension Other than Space:” Multidimensional Consciousness in Molly Cochran’s <i>The Third Magic</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Radhia Flah Gaiech<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>5 The Multiverse as Ontological Catalyst in Sheri S. Tepper’s <i>The Margarets</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Stephanie Studzinski<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>6 Parallel Universes in Superhero Comics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Francisco Sáez de Adana<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>7 <i>Thursday Next Series</i>: Transmedia Fiction as a “Multi-Media” Multiverse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Carmen Hidalgo-Varo<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>8 Fighting across Reality: Otherworlds, Parallel Dimensions, and the Multiverse in Martial Arts Fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Eduardo González de la Fuente<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>PART II The Multiverse as Theoretical Method for Audio-Visual Fictions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>9 From Representation to Simulation: Narrative Inconsistencies in Cyberspatial Otherworlds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Anna Batori<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>10 Bridging Multiverse and Media/Video Game Studies: <i>Nobunaga’s Ambition</i> as a Multiverse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Yasuhito Abe<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>11 The Invisible Affects the Visible: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the Portrayal of the Spirit and the Physical Worlds in Nigerian and Cameroonian Video Films<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Floribert Patrick C. Endong<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>12 “Okay, Which World do You Think is Real?” – Complex Shared Dream-within-a-Dream Worlds in <i>Doctor Who</i>: “Amy’s Choice” (2010) and “Last Christmas” (2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Kathrin Neis <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>13 <i>Black Mirror</i>: Flat-line Multiverses and Mutations of the Possible<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Iván Pintor Iranzo<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>14 Postface: a A Typology of Multiverse Narratives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'>Marie-Laure Ryan </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi Extra Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>