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)

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

Corinna Assmann

The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between narrative theory and feminist, queer and trans* theory. Bringing together eminent and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines, it foregrounds connections between new views on gender and recent developments in narratology. The first section outlines key concepts for the study of narrative and gender and features theory-oriented chapters on what it means for the study of narrative to go beyond gender binaries. The middle sections cover some of the currently most influential fields of narratology and literary theory: cognitive and eco-narratology, postcolonial studies, as well as concepts that are central to both narrative and gender studies, such as affect and performativity. The last section explores the meaning of gender in various genres and media formats, from science fiction and trans* autobiographies to film, TV and social media. This field-changing volume shows how the proliferation of new ways to think about gender identity and sexuality demands a strong reconsideration of narratological methodologies. Chapter 23 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies

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

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."

Gregor Ahn

Jan Rupp

Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.

Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies

Ritual and Narrative

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

Though the phenomenon known as “unreliable narration” or “narrative unreliability” has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration. Except for film, forms and functions of unreliable narration in other genres, media and disciplines have so far been relatively neglected. The present volume redresses the balance by directing scholarly attention to disciplines and domains that narratology has so far largely ignored. It aims at initiating an interdisciplinary approach to, and debate on, narrative unreliability, exploring unreliable narration in a broad range of literary genres, other media and non-fictional text-types, contexts and disciplines beyond literary studies. Crossing the boundaries between genres, media, and disciplines, the volume acknowledges that the question of whether or not to believe or trust a narrator transcends the field of literature: The issues of (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness play a crucial role in many areas of human life as well as a wide spectrum of academic fields ranging from law to history, and from psychology to the study of culture.

Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness

Caroline Lusin

Genres - Entwicklungen - Modellinterpretationen

Der zeitgenössische englische Roman

Genres, Entwicklungen, Modellinterpretationen

Der amerikanische und britische Kriminalroman

Die Kindler Kompakt Bände präsentieren in handlicher Form die 30 - 40 wichtigsten Autoren udn Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts. Auf 192 Seiten werden sie vorgestellt. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers. Hier werden die Epochen verortet, die großen Linien gezogen, das Wesentliche zusammengefasst. Das alles handlich und in schöner Form, zweifarbige Gestaltung, lesbarer Satz. Schöne literarische Begleiter in allen Lebenslagen - wer Klassiker kauft, wird von Kindler Kompakt begeistert sein!

Kindler Kompakt: Englische Literatur, 19. Jahrhundert

Schlüsselkompetenzen unabdingbar für den Studien- und Berufserfolg. Denn Schlüsselqualifikationen befähigen dazu, flexibel auf unterschiedliche Anforderungen zu reagieren, eigenständig Probleme zu lösen und adäquat mit sachlichen Herausforderungen umzugehen. Dazu gehören z.B. wissenschaftliches Schreiben, Lern- und Memorierungstechniken, Rhetorik und Vortragstechniken, Zeit- und Projektmanagement sowie Teamfähigkeit, Moderationskompetenz, interkulturelle Kompetenzen, didaktische Kompetenzen, Medien-, Präsentations- und Visualisierungskompetenzen. Der Band präsentiert alle relevanten Schlüsselkompetenzen in systematischer Form und bereitet optimal auf Prüfungen und auf den Einstieg in das Berufsleben vor. Mit vielen praktischen Hinweisen, Tipps und Übungen zur selbstständigen Entwicklung von Schlüsselkompetenzen.

Schlüsselkompetenzen: Qualifikationen für Studium und Beruf

von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart

Kulturgeschichte der englischen Literatur

Literatur aus dem geschlechterspezifischen Blickwinkel interpretieren. Welchen Einfluss hat der Gender-Aspekt beim Verfassen eines Erzähltextes? Die wichtigsten Methoden und Begriffe der genderorientierten Erzähltheorie stehen im Mittepunkt des Bandes. Er leitet dazu an, Erzähltexte geschlechterspezifisch zu analysieren und stellt den Zusammenhang her zwischen narratologischen Gesichtspunkten und den soziokulturellen Kategorien sex, gender und sexuality.

Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies

Kindler Kompakt: Englische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert

Die Kindler Klassiker präsentieren in einem Band die wichigen Autoren und Werke einer Nationalliteratur. Auf 600 - 800 Seiten werden sie vorgestell: kurze biografische Skizzen der Autoren und kundige Darstellung der Werke. Alles wie im KLL, nur: eine ganze literarische Welt in einem Band.

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