Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Media and Narratives

Edited by: Vera Nünning , Ansgar Nünning and Birgit Neumann

Volume 1 in the series Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227567

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Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.

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Vera Nünning, Heidelberg University; Ansgar Nünning and Birgit Neumann, Justus Liebig University Giessen.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Ways of Worldmaking as a Model for the Studyof Culture: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Underpinnings, New Horizons Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Theoretical Approaches to Ways of Worldmaking
‘I Believe That the World’ Steven Connor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Three Theories of Literary Worldmaking: Phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), Constructivist (Nelson Goodman), Cognitive Psychologist (Schank and Abelson) Herbert Grabes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Worldmaking as Fate Ben Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
The Politics of Symbolic Forms Frederik Tygstrup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
II. Media as Ways of Worldmaking
Media as Ways of Worldmaking: Media-specific Structures and Intermedial Dynamics Birgit Neumann and Martin Zierold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Remarks on the Historicity of the Media Concept Knut Ove Eliassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Do Media Determine Our Situation? Friedrich Kittler's Application of Information Theory to the Humanities Stephen Sale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur Building Ulrik Ekman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Worlds Made of Concrete and Celluloid: The London Council Estate in Nil By Mouth and Wonderland Matthew Taunton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
III. Narratives as Ways of Worldmaking
Making Events – Making Stories – Making Worlds: Ways of Worldmaking from a Narratological Point of View Ansgar Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
The Making of Fictional Worlds: Processes, Features, and Functions Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Literary Worldmaking Inger Østenstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Writing Lives and ‘Worlds’: English Fictional Biography at the Turn of the 21st Century Caroline Lusin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Fictional Narratives and Their Ways of Spiritual Worldmaking: (De-)Constructing the Realm of Transcendence in City of God by Way of Metafiction and Multiperspectivity Hanna Bingel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Narrating Life: Early Modern Accounts of the Life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre and Maren Eckart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Seeing a World Unmade, and Making a World (Out) of Remains: The Post-Apocalyptic Re-Visions of W. S. Merwin and Carolyn Forché René Dietrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 361
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Ways of Worldmaking; Study of Culture; Cultural Studies; Nelson Goodman

eBook

Published: June 29, 2010
ISBN: 9783110227567

Hardcover

Published: June 15, 2010
ISBN: 9783110227550

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110486032

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Media and Narratives

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Ways of Worldmaking as a Model for the Studyof Culture: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Underpinnings, New Horizons

‘I Believe That the World’

Three Theories of Literary Worldmaking: Phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), Constructivist (Nelson Goodman), Cognitive Psychologist (Schank and Abelson)

Worldmaking as Fate

The Politics of Symbolic Forms

Media as Ways of Worldmaking: Media-specific Structures and Intermedial Dynamics

Remarks on the Historicity of the Media Concept

Do Media Determine Our Situation? Friedrich Kittler's Application of Information Theory to the Humanities

Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur Building

Worlds Made of Concrete and Celluloid: The London Council Estate in Nil By Mouth and Wonderland

Making Events – Making Stories – Making Worlds: Ways of Worldmaking from a Narratological Point of View

The Making of Fictional Worlds: Processes, Features, and Functions

Literary Worldmaking

Writing Lives and ‘Worlds’: English Fictional Biography at the Turn of the 21st Century

Fictional Narratives and Their Ways of Spiritual Worldmaking: (De-)Constructing the Realm of Transcendence in City of God by Way of Metafiction and Multiperspectivity

Narrating Life: Early Modern Accounts of the Life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689)

Seeing a World Unmade, and Making a World (Out) of Remains: The Post-Apocalyptic Re-Visions of W. S. Merwin and Carolyn Forché

Backmatter