Cultural ways of worldmaking : media and narratives /
Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodmans theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book "Ways of Worldmaking", this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. The volume serves to demonstrate...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2010
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Concepts for the study of culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: ways of worldmaking as a model for the study of culture: theoretical frameworks, epistemological underpinnings, new horizons / Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning
- Theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking. 'I believe that the world' / Steven Connor
- Three theories of literary worldmaking: phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), constructivist (Nelson Goodman), cognitive psychologist (Schank and Abelson) / Herbert Grabes
- Worldmaking as fate / Ben Dawson
- The politics of symbolic forms / Frederik Tygstrup
- Media as ways of worldmaking. Media as ways of worldmaking: media-specific structures and intermedial dynamics / Birgit Nuemann and Martin Zierold
- Remarks on the historicity of the media concept / Knut Ove Eilassen
- Do media determine our situation? Friedrich Kittler's application of information theory to the humanities / Stephen Sale
- Irreducible vagueness: augmented worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur building / Ulrik Ekman
- Narratives as ways of worldmaking. Making events-making stories-making worlds: ways of worldmaking from a narratological point of view / Ansgar Nünning
- The making of fictional worlds: processes, features, and functions / Vera Nünning
- Literary worldmaking / Inger Østenstad
- Fictional narratives and their ways of spiritual worldmaking: (de- )constructing the realm of transcendence in City of God by way of metafiction and multiperspectivity / Hanna Bingel
- Narrating life: early modern accounts of the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689 / Elisabeth Waghall Nivre and Maren Eckart
- Seeing a world unmade, and making a world (out) of remains: the post-apocalyptic re-visions of W.S. Merwin and Carolyn Forché / Rene Dietrich.
