
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Stefan Schubert(Author)
Universitätsverlag Winter
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2019
Book
Hardback
VII, 293 pages
978-3-8253-4684-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book introduces the concept of 'narrative instability' in order to make visible a new trend in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend's poetics, and to scrutinize its textual politics. It identifies those texts as narratively unstable that consciously frustrate and obfuscate the process of narrative understanding and comprehension. Despite-or rather, exactly because of-their destabilizing tendencies, such texts have attained mainstream popularity in recent years across media, most prominently in films, video games, and TV series. Focusing on three clusters of instability that form around identities, realities, and textualities, the book argues that narratively unstable texts encourage their audiences to engage with the constructedness of their universes, that narrative instability embodies a new facet of popular culture, that it can only be understood transmedially, and that its textual politics particularly speak to white male middle-class Americans.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2018
Universität Leipzig
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8253-4684-3 (9783825346843)
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Stefan Schubert
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
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