Published by De Gruyter

Revisionen

Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie

Edited by: Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matías Martínez and Simone Winko

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The volume Regeln der Bedeutung ('Rules of meaning') marks the launch of REVISIONEN, a projected series of some eight volumes on basic concepts of literary theory. The series aims to reflect on central concepts of literary studies which have become questionable or problematic in the course of recent debates and to open up new perspectives on them in order to make them available for research in a new manner. Such concepts include, for example, 'meaning', 'literature', 'interpretation'. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing not only on literary theory but also on art history, music, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology.

Book 2019

Das Werk

Zum Verschwinden und Fortwirken eines Grundbegriffs

Lutz Danneberg, Annette Gilbert, Carlos Spoerhase

Volume 5 in this series

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The category of the “work” has been the subject of intense criticism in literary studies over the past 50 years. Quite recently, however, there are signs that the once scorned notion of the work is slowly regaining its place as a central and positive analytic category. This volume examines developing forms and functions of the concept of the “work” in 21^st century humanities scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525885
ISBN:: 9783110525885
ISBN:: 9783110525434
ISBN:: 9783110523331
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Narrative Factuality

A Handbook

Monika Fludernik, Marie-Laure Ryan

Volume 6 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486278
ISBN:: 9783110486278
ISBN:: 9783110482805
ISBN:: 9783110484991
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Fiktionalität

Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch

Tobias Klauk, Tilmann Köppe

Volume 4 in this series

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This volume includes 22 articles that provide an introduction to fundamental issues in the theory of fiction. It covers the most influential approaches used to demarcate the boundary between fictional and non-fictional media based on pragmatic, receptive, and contextual theories. The handbook explores core philosophical and psychological questions about the functions and the institutional history of fictionality since ancient times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110322606
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032224-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032260-6
ISBN:: 9783110370003
ISBN:: 9783110486131
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Characters in Fictional Worlds

Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media

Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis, Ralf Schneider

Volume 3 in this series

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Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today´s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232424
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023241-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023242-4
ISBN:: 9783110486063
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Other Genres
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Grenzen der Literatur

Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen

Simone Winko, Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer

Volume 2 in this series

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The concept of "literature" is notoriously vague and defies definition, yet at the same time it is indispensable in an age where traditional subject boundaries are breaking down. This volume discusses possible ways of defining the concept in such a manner that it can be productively deployed heuristically in varied historical and cultural contexts. At the same time, phenomena such as fictionality and literaricity are taken as the starting point for a search for common features of literature. The following topics are dealt with: 1. Aspects of 'Literature' as a prototype, 2. Fictionality, 3. Historical aspects of the phenomenon of 'Literature', 4. Cultural and social aspects of the phenomenon of 'Literature', 5. The constitution of literature as an object in literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210835
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018930-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021083-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Regeln der Bedeutung

Zur Theorie der Bedeutung literarischer Texte

Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matías Martínez, Simone Winko

Volume 1 in this series

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The volume Regeln der Bedeutung ('Rules of meaning') marks the launch of Revisionen, a projected series of some eight volumes on basic concepts of literary theory. The series aims to reflect on central concepts of literary studies which have become questionable or problematic in the course of recent debates and to open up new perspectives on them in order to make them available for research in a new manner.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907018
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017558-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090701-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter