The Travelling Concept Of Narrative
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Author | : Mari Hatavara |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2013-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271968 |
Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields, the travels for the concept itself have been a somewhat more complex. Has the concept of narrative passed intact from literature to sociology, from structuralism to therapeutic practice or to the study of everyday storytelling? In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, literary theorists, sociolinguists, and sociologists use methodologically challenging test cases to scrutinize the types, transformations, and trajectories of the concept and theory of narrative. The book powerfully argues that narrative concepts are profoundly relevant in the understanding of life, experience, and literary texts. Nonetheless, it emphasizes the vast contextual differences and contradictions in the use of the concept.
Author | : Birgit Neumann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3110227622 |
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of transfer. The volume serves to show that working with (travelling) concepts provides a unique strategy for research and research design which can open up a wide range of promising perspectives for interdisciplinary exchange. It offers an exemplary overview of an interdisciplinary and international approach to the travelling concepts that organize, structure and shape the study of culture. In doing so, the volume serves to initiate a dialogue that exceeds disciplinary and national boundaries and introduces a self-reflexive dimension to the field, thus affording a recognition of how deeply disciplinary premises and nation-specific research traditions affect different approaches in the study of culture.
Author | : Monika Fludernik |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783631805992 |
This collection of essays is based on the cooperation between the Freiburg graduate school Factual and Fictional Narration and the Aarhus Centre of Fictionality Studies. It re-examines the much discussed fact―fiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality.
Author | : Mieke Bal |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442690453 |
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts. Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Concepts are not grids to put over an object. The counterpart of any given concept is the cultural text or work or 'thing' that constitutes the object of analysis. No concept is meaningful for cultural analysis unless it helps us to understand the object better on its own terms. Bal offers the reader a sustained theoretical reflection on how to 'do' cultural analysis through a tentative practice of doing just that. This offers a concrete practice to theoretical constructs, and allows the proposed method more accessibility. Please note: illustrations have been removed from the ebook at the request of the rightsholder.
Author | : Mieke Bal |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780802084101 |
Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.
Author | : Michael Crichton |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307816494 |
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.
Author | : Monika Fludernik |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 751 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110484994 |
The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.
Author | : Tim Youngs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521874475 |
Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
Author | : Emily Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019883540X |
How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Author | : Grace Paley |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466883979 |
This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.