Beyond Narrative
Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-3-8376-6130-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book calls for an investigation of the >borderlands of narrativity< - the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the >beyond< of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
8
3 s/w Abbildungen, 5 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-6130-9 (9783837661309)
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Sebastian M. Herrmann | Katja Kanzler | Stefan Schubert
Beyond Narrative
Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
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04/2022
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Persons
Editor
Sebastian M. Herrmann, Universität Leipzig, Deutschland
Sebastian M. Herrmann is an American studies scholar at Leipzig University, Germany. His work is focused on the poetics of ('post-truth') politics, on popular culture, and on symbolic forms. His most recent monograph, currently forthcoming, focuses on the interdependence of data and literature in ninetheenth-century US culture.
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Katja Kanzler, Universität Leipzig, Deutschland
Katja Kanzler lehrt und forscht am Institut für Amerikanistik der Universität Leipzig.
Stefan Schubert, Universität Leipzig, Deutschland
Stefan Schubert (Dr.) lehrt und forscht am Institut für Amerikanistik der Universität Leipzig.
Content
Overview; Borderlands of Narrativity; Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics; The Data of Life and the Life of Data; The Potentialities of Data; Unnecessary Complications?; Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption Videogames; Detecting Liminality; "To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1"; Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar; The Poetics and Politics of Staring; "No Show Dissed Quite Like This One"; Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital; Home Front Autobiographies of the 'War on Terror'; Form and/in Modernity; Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons; Narrating Authorship; Endings and Sustainability; Contributors.