Ansgar Nünning

Vera Nünning

A compact introduction to the central subject-matter, approaches and research domains - attention is paid primarily to the most important issues and categories of literary studies, to the methodology of poetry, drama, narrative and media analysis, and to the most important elements of English and American literary history. German version: Grundkurs anglistisch-amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft Print ISBN 9783129390290, epub 9783129391136

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Uni-Wissen An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (English Version)

Astrid Erll

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences. “Cultural memory studies” – as defined in this handbook – came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of “culture” and “memory” has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of “cultural memory” as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de mémoire such as 9/11.

An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook

Cultural Memory Studies

Although it is well known that narrative impacts our modes of assessing and interpreting the world as well as the creation of cultural identities and cultural communities, there is little research on the way in which cognition, culture, and narratives intersect. Cultural narratology usually focuses on the relation between culture and narrative, while cognitive narratology explores the relation between cognition and narrative. However, the three concepts reciprocally influence each other: narratives shape cognition just as cognitive frames and processes shape narratives. Similarly, the culture we belong to informs our cognitive processes and the way we perceive, interpret and react to our environment. Culture and narrative also impact each other in myriad ways. Narratives are therefore at the centre of this volume, and each chapter deals with narrative (either as a cognitive or performative tool), relating it to either cognition, or culture, or to both. The volume also explores social practices of real-world storytelling (for instance in discourses on migration), and the cognitive dimension of cultures that narratives provide access to. The latter includes shared (self-)concepts, schemata, and cultural models. This interdisciplinary volume builds conceptual bridges between cultural studies, cognitive theory, and narrative theory.

Culture, Cognition, Narrative

Jens Kugele

Doris Bachmann-Medick

Die Reihe widmet sich zentralen neueren Konzepten und Methoden im Feld der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung und inhaltlichen Fragestellungen. Sie zielt darauf, die gegenwärtige Diskussion in den Kulturwissenschaften weiter zu profilieren und sie zugleich für die Arbeit in den Disziplinen fruchtbar zu machen: durch die Ausarbeitung interdisziplinärer Schlüsselkonzepte und die Entwicklung einer transkulturellen study of culture. Die Bände gehen überwiegend aus den Literatur-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften hervor, aber auch aus der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie und den Medienwissenschaften.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges

Futures of the Study of Culture

Birgit Neumann

Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s 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. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.

Media and Narratives

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities. Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.

 Elizabeth Kovach

The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages – both as phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. Whether structural, semiotic, spatial/geographic, temporal, existential, societal or institutional, passages refer to processes of (status) change. They enable entrances and exits, arrivals and departures, while they also foster moments of liminality and suspension. They connect and thereby engender difference. Passages is an exploration of passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. It aims to foster a concept-based, interdisciplinary dialogue on how to approach and theorize such a term. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts and discursive settings, a conceptual approach to passages provides the authors of this volume with the analytical tools to (re-)focus their research questions and create a meaningful exchange across disciplinary, national and linguistic boundaries. Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.

Moving beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture

Passages

Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman s 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 how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations."

Ansätze - Personen - Grundbegriffe

Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie

einem Phantom auf der Spur

Der Deutsche an sich

Der Band "Konzepte der Kulturwissenschaften" bietet Orientierung in einem interdisziplinären Diskussionsfeld, das inzwischen selbst für Fachleute kaum noch überschaubar ist. Er informiert über die gegenwärtigen kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskussionen - insbesondere in den Literaturwissenschaften - und gibt einen systematischen und umfassenden Überblick über die verschiedenen Ansätze wie Kultursemiotik, Kulturanthropologie und New Historicism. Weitere Kapitel widmen sich der Medienwissenschaft, kulturwissenschaftlicher Geschlechterforschung, Fragen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses oder interkultureller Kommunikation.

Theoretische Grundlagen - Ansätze - Perspektiven

Konzepte der Kulturwissenschaften

Kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien sind äußerst vielgestaltig. Doch welche Konzepte sind relevant? Welche Begriffe spielen eine tragende Rolle? Wie haben sich die literaturgeschichtlichen Modelle entwickelt? Welche Autoren prägen die gegenwärtigen Diskurse? Über 760 kompakte Artikel erklären abstrakte Begriffe und komplexe Modelle und vermitteln gut verständliches Grundlagenwissen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die großen Theorien wie z.B. Dekonstruktion, feministische Literaturtheorie, Konstruktivismus, New Historicism, Mentalitätsgeschichte, postkoloniale Literaturkritik und Poststrukturalismus. Kein bedeutender Theoretiker und kein zentraler Begriff werden außer Acht gelassen.

Ansätze – Personen – Grundbegriffe

Henning Peters

Julijana Nadj

Janine Hauthal

Figuren, die aus ihrer Rolle fallen, Dichtergedichte, Filme über das Filmemachen oder das Kino - metaisierende Darstellungsverfahren, d.h. Reflexionen über Kunst in der Kunst, sind vielfältig und in allen Gattungen, Medien und Epochen zu finden. Das vorliegende Kompendium gibt erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über Theorien, Formen und Funktionen von Metaisierung. Zahlreiche Beispielanalysen stellen historische Perspektiven und medienspezifische Zugänge vor - von Homers Metaerzählung Die Odyssee bis zu den Simpsons als Metacartoon.

theoretische Grundlagen, historische Perspektiven, Metagattungen, Funktionen

Metaisierung in Literatur und anderen Medien

Kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien schießen heute wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Den Überblick behalten, heißt die Devise. Welche Konzepte sind relevant? Welche Begriffe spielen eine tragende Rolle? Wie haben sich die literaturgeschichtlichen Modelle entwickelt? Welche Autoren prägen die gegenwärtigen Diskurse? In rund 720 kompakten Artikeln verwandeln sich abstrakte Begriffe und komplexe Modelle in gut verständliches Grundlagenwissen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die großen Theorien wie z.B. Dekonstruktion, feministische Literaturtheorie, Konstruktivismus, New Historicism, Mentalitätsgeschichte, postkoloniale Literaturkritik und Poststrukturalismus. Von Aristoteles über Derrida, Foucault, Greenblatt bis Hayden White, von Appellfunktion bis Zirkulation - kein bedeutender Theoretiker und kein zentraler Begriff wird außer Acht gelassen. Was ist neu in der 3. Auflage? Grundlegend überarbeitet manifestiert das Werk wieder den neuesten Forschungsstand. Und: 20 Artikel zu interdisziplinären und intermedialen Aspekten der Theoriebildung vervollständigen den Klassiker. Ein Muss für alle, die sich mit Literatur- und Kulturtheorie befassen.

Von historischer Fiktion zu historiographischer Metafiktion: Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungstendenzen des historischen Romans in England seit 1950

Der Leitfaden durch die Fülle der literaturtheoretischen Fachbegriffe. In über 210 Einträgen werden zentrale Begriffe der Literaturtheorie erläutert. Dazu zählen z.B. Dekonstruktion, Figur, Hermeneutik, Intermedialität, Kanon, Metapherntheorien, Motiv, New Historicism, Postkoloniale Literaturtheorie, Stoff und Symbol. Ein Nachschlagewerk für Studenten im Grundstudium.

Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie

In this volume, concepts of memory from literary studies are systematically recorded for the first time and presented from an historical, theoretical and methodological aspect. The aim is to locate the discussion in the subject discipline within the transdisciplinary discussion of memory and recollection.

Theoretische Grundlegung und Anwendungsperspektiven

Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft

Sara B. Young

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences. "Cultural memory studies" - as defined in this handbook - came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of "culture" and "memory" has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of "cultural memory" as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de mémoire such as 9/11.

Herbert Grabes

Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

Ansgar Nünning

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