Cultural ways of worldmaking
Subtitle: media and narratives
By: edited by Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning , Birgit Neumann ; in collaboration with Mirjam Horn
Series: Concepts for the study of culture -- 1
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9783110227550; 9783110227567
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Language and culture; Culture in literature; Narrative Discourse analysis; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ways of worldmaking as a model for the study of culture: theoretical frameworks, epistemological underpinnings, new horizons / Ansgar Nünning  and Vera Nünning; title: Theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking. 'I believe that the world' / Steven Connor; title: Three theories of literary worldmaking: phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), constructivist (Nelson Goodman), cognitive psychologist (Schank and Abelson) / Herbert Grabes; title: Worldmaking as fate / Ben Dawson; title: The politics of symbolic forms / Frederik Tygstrup; title: Media as ways of worldmaking. Media as ways of worldmaking: media-specific structures and intermedial dynamics / Birgit Nuemann and Martin Zierold; title: Remarks on the historicity of the media concept / Knut Ove Eilassen; title: Do media determine our situation? Friedrich Kittler's application of information theory to the humanities / Stephen Sale; title: Irreducible vagueness: augmented worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur building / Ulrik Ekman; title: Narratives as ways of worldmaking. Making events-making stories-making worlds: ways of worldmaking from a narratological point of view / Ansgar Nünning; title: The making of fictional worlds: processes, features, and functions / Vera Nünning; title: Literary worldmaking / Inger Østenstad; title: 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; title: Narrating life: early modern accounts of the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689 / Elisabeth Waghall Nivre and Maren Eckart; title: 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.