Beyond Narrative
Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
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Beschreibung
A theory-based exploration of the way culture travels in and out of the symbolic form of narrative: what other forms are there, and how do they mix?
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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Sebastian M. Herrmann
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.
Themen in »Beyond Narrative«
Literature Literature Culture Culture Narrative Narrative Media Media Data Data Popular Culture Popular Culture American Studies American Studies Comic