{"product_id":"seriality","title":"Seriality","description":"This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe serial is everywhere. Commonly identified by the segmented release structure of an ongoing narrative - from installments of Victorian novels to TV episodes to comic books - seriality names the spread of installment-based storytelling across a range of media. However, Ryan Engley argues that seriality is not only a narrative structure but also a psychic structure. Seriality - in its dependence on gaps, delay, and constraint - names the fundamental trauma of contemporary life: that there exists an intrinsic relation between self and other, a relation that is often difficult to see and difficult to bear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough formal readings of media texts alongside Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the dialectical method of G.W.F. Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism, Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life shifts the focus of seriality studies. In so doing, Engley presents a rebuttal to the common refrain that our lives, like contemporary media, have become endlessly fragmented. Rather, Engley finds, we have become radically - serially - connected.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57600647823686,"sku":"9798216197782","price":23.65,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/fb72671066bfbc5256ba2c38a13229f6ff27a44cf1d6857e419c8de8de0fe6ef.jpg?v=1792045129","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/seriality","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}