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Life Storying in Oral History
This book proposes the concept of "fictional contamination" to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative. Exploring conversational storytelling in oral history and other interviews from socionarratological perspectives, the book systematically discusses key narrative features such as story templates, dialogue, double deixis, focalization or perspective-taking and mind representation as well as special narrative forms including second-person narration and narratives of vicarious experience. These features and forms attest to storytellers’ linguistic creativity and serve the function of involving listeners by making storie...
Mediating Faiths
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. They raise fundamental questions concerning new media and religious expression, religious youth cultures, the links between spirituality, personal development and consumer culture, and contemporary intersections of religion, identity and politics. Together the chapters demonstrate how belief in the superempirical is negotiated relative to secular concerns in the twenty-first century.
Hollywood Puzzle Films
From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
Skepticism Films
Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture. Philipp Schmerheim defends a pluralistic film-philosophical position according to which films can be, but need not be, expressions of philosophical thought in their own right. It critically investigates the influence of ideas of skepticism on film-philosophical theories and develops a typology of skepticism films by analyzing The Truman Show, Inception, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, The Thirteenth Floor, Moon and other contemporary skepticism films. With its focus on skepticism as one of the most significant philosophical problems, Skepticism Films provides a better understanding of the dynamic interplay between film, theories of film and philosophy.
Dialogue across Media
With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters, literary critics, linguists and new media theorists, each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of dialogue in action. Together, these chapters demonstrate the unique energy and versatility that dialogic forms can offer artists and readers alike, and the special role that dialogue plays in helping us to understand the complexities and contradictions of human interaction. Dialogue across Media provides an essential resource for students and specialists in many fields concerned with dialogue, including language and literature, media and cultural studies, narratology and rhetoric.
Museums of the World
Museums of the World covers in its 13th edition 52,953 museums in 201 countries, listed hierarchically by country and place, and within places, alphabetically by name. A separate chapter records 504 museum organizations in 131 countries with addresses. The museums are coded by 22 categories identifying the focus and type of each institution. A typical entry contains the following details: name of the museum in the original language with English translation where necessary, address, telephone number, fax, eMail address and URL, museum type, year of foundation, name of the director and museum staff, special collections and equipment, number of the entry. In addition, there is an alphabetical index of museums, a subject index, an index of persons covering academic staff working in museums, and a personality index, recording artists whose works are shown predominantly in a specific museum and/or refering to memorabilia of famous individuals.
Sterben und Tod
Zentrale ethische Frage im 21. Jahrhundert: Wie gehen wir am besten mit Altern, Sterben und Tod um? Erstmals werden die Erkenntnisse verschiedener Wissenschaften dazu in einem Handbuch zusammengefasst. Es vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse über medizinische, psychologische, historische und ethische Aspekte von Sterben und Tod und beleuchtet religionswissenschaftliche, ethnologische und philosophische Perspektiven. Sowohl der individuelle als auch der gesellschaftliche Umgang mit dem Thema kommen zur Sprache, ebenso wie moralische Debatten, z. B. zu Suizid und Todesstrafe.
Geschlechtervorstellungen und soziale Differenzierung bei Appian aus Alexandrien
Im zweiten Jahrhundert n. Chr. verfasst der Agypter Appian ein historiographisches Werk uber die Geschichte Roms. In detailreichen Schilderungen erklart er die Macht und die territoriale Ausdehnung des Romischen Reiches. Die Art und Weise, wie Appian seine Geschichte schreibt, sowie die Rollen, die er den mannlichen und weiblichen Figuren zuteilt, stehen im Mittelpunkt von Kordula Schneggs Studie zu Geschlechtervorstellungen und sozialer Differenzierung bei Appian. Ausgehend von den theoretischen Uberlegungen der US-amerikanischen Neuzeithistorikerin Joan W. Scott zu 'Geschlecht' als wissenschaftlicher Kategorie wird der antike griechische Text in Hinblick auf die in ihm enthaltenen Geschlec...
Brüchige Texte, brüchige Identitäten
Brüche prägen die Geschichte und Kultur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts; dabei ist auch das konventionelle Erzählen ins Stocken gekommen. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes untersuchen literarische Texte von Autoren der Avantgarde und von Schriftstellerinnen mit Migrationshintergrund, die diese Unterbrechungen von Kontinuität repräsentieren, aber auch Brüche bewirken: Die Avantgarde bricht stilistisch mit konventionellen narrativen Formen und Ausdrucksweisen; der Wechsel von bedrucktem Papier zu Bildschirmen und digitaler Programmierung verändert das Schreiben und Lesen. Exophone Schriftsteller mit Migrationshintergrund schreiben anders als Autorinnen, die sich in ihrer Heimatkultur bewegen ...
Trauma – Literatur – Moderne
In diesem Buch beschreibt Helmut Grugger, wie poetische Texte hochgradig reflektierte Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Komplex des Psychotraumas erzeugen, und zeigt so, dass gerade Literatur hoher Qualität für die unterschiedlichen Diskurse zum Thema Trauma von höchstem Interesse ist. Das wichtige transdisziplinäre Thema wird anhand exemplarischer Einzelanalysen behandelt – zum ersten Mal in einer größeren, die verschiedenen Ansätze überblickenden und literarhistorisch fundierten Arbeit. Während Theoretiker die Eröffnungskapitel und Praktiker die Ergebnisse des Schlussteils besonders aufschlussreich finden, können alle literarisch Interessierten an jedem Knotenpunkt der zweihundertjährigen Textgeschichte einsteigen.
