The cultural work of fictions
Subtitle: trajectories of literary studies in the 21st century
By: Imke Polland-Schmandt and Ansgar Nünning (eds.).
Series: ELCH -- Band 84; ELCH -- Bd. 84.
Publisher: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783868219128
Subjects: Fiction; Social aspects; Literature and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the cultural work of fictions: theoretical and conceptual explorations / -- Imke Polland-Schmandt and Ansgar Nünning -- I. The cultural work of fictions: exploring the interfaces of socio-cultural and literary fictions.; title: Fiction as play: theoretical and literary perspectives on simulation (embodied or not)  -- Angela Locatelli; title: Re-reading Peter Weiss: life in fiction, fiction in life  -- Peter Hanenberg; title: From fact to fiction: the travels of a memory  -- Vera Herold; title: Worldmaking and metaphors: gauging the Nordic welfare state project in Maarit Verronen's Varjonainen (2013)  -- Sarianna Kankkunen; title: Fiction as a platform for the negotiation of cultural models in Elisabeth Elliot's essay series On asking God why (1989)  -- Mareike Flier; title: Hunger worlds and world hunger: the cultural work of famine fiction  -- Daria Steiner -- II. Fictions engaging in cultural work: potentialities of texts and trajectories of literary studies.; title: Overhearing in the underground: the cultural work of listening in Wolfgang Hilbig's "Ich" (1993)  -- Markus Huss -- Literary sonic imagination and the cultural work of fictional texts within sound culture: a case study of Wajdi Mouawad's Incendies (2003) / -- Dimitri Smirnov; title: Textual work as practice of evidence production in novels by Guzel' Yahina and Aleksandr Ilichevskii -- Alena Heinritz -- Knowledge without language?: functions of narration in Ben Marcus' The flame alphabet (2012) /-- Iida Turpeinen -- "[A]usserhalb unserem kleinen Horizont": Christoph Martin Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon (1766-1767) as world literature /-- Fredrik Renard -- Rhizomatic trajectories of literary studies: polyphony and family relations in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban (1992) /-- Eleonora Rapisardi.