Writing Facts : Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knaller, Susanne.

Contributor:

Knaller, Susanne, editor.

Series:

Lettre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Facts (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Writing Facts

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Knaller Susanne : Susanne Knaller (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft sowie Kulturwissenschaft an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz und ist Leiterin des dortigen Zentrums für Kulturwissenschaften. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theorien und Geschichte von Authentizität, Realitätskonzepte in der Moderne sowie Schreib- und Emotionsforschung.

Summary:

Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal choices, models of argumentation and narrative patterns. By considering »writing facts« and »writing facts«, the volume shows why and how »facts« are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives »fact« and its impact on modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Writing Facts

THEORY AND HISTORY

Facts in Modernity

Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making

Facts

WRITING SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND LAW

Writing Social Facts

Writing 'Volksgemeinschaft' into 'Fact'

Manufacturing Legal Facts

LITERATURE AND ARTS

Towards a Poetics of Fact

'Writing Facts' and 19th-Century English Realist Fiction

A 'Real' Novel?

Rewriting Gender?

The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20th and Early 21st Century)

"One + One is one two. Two is one two"

MEDIA AND WRITING PRACTICE

An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts

Snapshot and Wage Table

(Body) Positivity in Social Media

'Patchwriting' as Unintentional Fact Writing.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783839462713

3839462711

OCLC:

1365390836