Nünning / Sicks Turning Points

Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-029710-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 471 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nünning, Ansgar

Sicks, Kai Marcel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Turning Points as Metaphors and Mininarrations: Analysing Concepts of Change in Literature and Other Media;11
2;I. Conceptualising Turning Points in Narrative Theory;39
2.1;“With the Benefit of Hindsight”: Features and Functions of Turning Points as a Narratological Concept and as a Way of Self-Making;41
2.2;Turning Points in the Nineteenth-Century Novella: Poetic Negotiations and the Representation of Social Rituals;69
2.3;Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistance to Peripeties in Modernist Writing;83
2.4;The Missing Turning Points in the Story: Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Between Ethics and Epistemology;95
2.5;“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;117
3;II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual media;133
3.1;On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels;135
3.2;Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History;155
3.3;(Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village;169
3.4;Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature;185
3.5;This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives;201
4;III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing;221
4.1;Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction;223
4.2;Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier’s and Hitchcock’s Rebecca;239
4.3;Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen’s Match Point;255
4.4;Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives;279
4.5;A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen’s Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot’s Progress;295
4.6;Becoming the ‘Other’: Metamorphosis and ‘Turning Points’ in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada;311
5;IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History;327
5.1;Lay Pamphlets in Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre?;329
5.2;The King is Dead, Long Live. the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing – Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689);347
5.3;Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre;361
5.4;Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse;371
5.5;Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction;381
5.6;New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature;397
6;V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory;415
6.1;On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies;417
6.2;Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis;435
6.3;The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal;447
7;Notes on Contributors;463

Über Autor(innen)

Nünning, Ansgar
Ansgar Nünnung and Kai Sicks, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany.