Turning points : concepts and narratives of change in literature and other media / edited by Ansgar Nunning, Kai Marcel Sicks ; in collaboration with Daniel Hartley, Mirjam Horn and Claudia Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nünning, Ansgar.

Sicks, Kai Marcel.

Hartley, Daniel.

Horn, Miriam.

Weber, Claudia.

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 33.

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft/spectrum Literature ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Change in literature.

Mass media and history.

Social change in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures - 'turning points' - in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever. Analysing literary, cinematic and other narratives, the volume seeks to understand the meanings conveyed by different concepts of turning points, the alternative concepts to which they are opposed when used to explain historical change, and those contexts in which they are unmasked as false and over-simplifying constructions. Literature and film in particular stress the importance of turning points as a sensemaking device (as part of a character's or a community's cultural memory), while at the same time unfolding the constructive and hence relative character of turning points. Offering complex reflections on the notion of turning points, literary and filmic narratives are thus of particular interest to the present volume.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Turning Points as Metaphors and Mininarrations: Analysing Concepts of Change in Literature and Other Media / NÜNNING, ANSGAR / SICKS, KAI MARCEL

I. Concepts of Change in Narrative Theory

"With the Benefit of Hindsight": Features and Functions of Turning Points as a Narratological Concept and as a Way of Self-Making / NÜNNING, ANSGAR

Turning Points in the Nineteenth-Century Novella: Poetic Negotiations and the Representation of Social Rituals / SIMONIS, ANNETTE

Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistance to Peripeties in Modernist Writing / LYYTIKÄINEN, PIRJO

The Missing Turning Points in the Story: Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Between Ethics and Epistemology / MARTELLA, VINCENZO

"If the Stranger hadn't been there! ... But he was!" Causal, Virtual and Evaluative Dimensions of Turning Points in Alternate Histories, Science-Fiction Stories and Multiverse Narratives / VOGT, ROBERT

II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual Media

On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels / AMEEL, LIEVEN

Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History / HANENBERG, PETER

(Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village / GONÇALVES, DIANA

Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature / RETTBERG, ANNA

This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives / GIL, ISABEL CAPELOA

III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing

Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction / FAISST, JULIA

Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier's and Hitchcock's Rebecca / FERREIRA, TERESA

Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen's Match Point / MÄKELÄ, HANNA

Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa's My Father's Wives / ANTZ, ELISA

A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen's Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot's Progress / RAVIZZA, ELEONORA

Becoming the 'Other': Metamorphosis and 'Turning Points' in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada / KARLSSON HAMMARFELT, LINDA

IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History

Lay Pamphlets in the Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre? / LUNDSTRÖM, KERSTIN

The King is Dead, Long Live ... the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing - Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) / WÅGHÄLL NIVRE, ELISABETH

Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre / DOS SANTOS LOPES, MARÍLIA

Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse / BONADEI, ROSSANA

Bridget Jones's Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction / PYRHÖNEN, HETA

New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature / KUSCHE, SABRINA

V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory

On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies / PETTERSSON, BO

Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis / LOCATELLI, ANGELA

The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal / EGERER, CLAUDIA

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ISBN:

9783110297119

3110297116

9781283857376

1283857375

9783110297102

3110297108

OCLC:

822018792