Navigating Imaginary Worlds

<p>This edited anthology offers a collection of essays that each look at various types of wayfinding. Together they explore a variety of wayfinding tools and techniques and their applications as well as ways of keeping track of the construction of worlds too.</p><p>With transmedial worlds extending over multiple media multiple authors and sometimes even multiple decades of creation a wealth of different issues can arise; worlds need to direct audience members into how to organize them conceptually. Edited by Mark J. P Wolf and featuring contributions from a distinguished set of authors from interdisciplinary backgrounds this book enriches the theory history and practice of world-building through the exploration of navigation. The essays have many overlapping concerns and together they provide the reader with a range of discussions regarding wayfinding and the many ways it intersects with world-building - and world-experiencing - activities. Thus rather than just analyzing worlds themselves the anthology also asks the reader to consider analyzing the act of world-building itself.</p><p>This collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields including Subcreation Studies Transmedia Studies Popular Culture Comparative Media Studies Video Game Studies Film Studies and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.</p>