Cultural ways of worldmaking : media and narratives / edited by Vera Nunning, Ansgar Nunning and Birgit Neumann ; in collaboration with Mirjam Horn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nünning, Vera, 1961-

Nünning, Ansgar.

Neumann, Birgit, 1974-

Series:

Concepts for the study of culture ; 1.

Concepts for the study of culture, 2190-3433 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture.

Language and culture.

Culture in literature.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Ways of Worldmaking as a Model for the Studyof Culture: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Underpinnings, New Horizons / Nünning, Ansgar / Nünning, Vera

I. Theoretical Approaches to Ways of Worldmaking

'I Believe That the World' / Connor, Steven

Three Theories of Literary Worldmaking: Phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), Constructivist (Nelson Goodman), Cognitive Psychologist (Schank and Abelson) / Grabes, Herbert

Worldmaking as Fate / Dawson, Ben

The Politics of Symbolic Forms / Tygstrup, Frederik

II. Media as Ways of Worldmaking

Media as Ways of Worldmaking: Media-specific Structures and Intermedial Dynamics / Neumann, Birgit / Zierold, Martin

Remarks on the Historicity of the Media Concept / Eliassen, Knut Ove

Do Media Determine Our Situation? Friedrich Kittler's Application of Information Theory to the Humanities / Sale, Stephen

Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur Building / Ekman, Ulrik

Worlds Made of Concrete and Celluloid: The London Council Estate in Nil By Mouth and Wonderland / Taunton, Matthew

III. Narratives as Ways of Worldmaking

Making Events - Making Stories - Making Worlds: Ways of Worldmaking from a Narratological Point of View / Nünning, Ansgar

The Making of Fictional Worlds: Processes, Features, and Functions / Nünning, Vera

Literary Worldmaking / Østenstad, Inger

Writing Lives and 'Worlds': English Fictional Biography at the Turn of the 21st Century / Lusin, Caroline

Fictional Narratives and Their Ways of Spiritual Worldmaking: (De-)Constructing the Realm of Transcendence in City of God by Way of Metafiction and Multiperspectivity / Bingel, Hanna

Narrating Life: Early Modern Accounts of the Life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) / Nivre, Elisabeth Wåghäll / Eckart, Maren

Seeing a World Unmade, and Making a World (Out) of Remains: The Post-Apocalyptic Re-Visions of W. S. Merwin and Carolyn Forché / Dietrich, René

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612706646

9781282706644

1282706640

9783110227567

3110227568

OCLC:

654029429