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Zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Journalismus: Nora Bernings Beobachtungen zum journalistischen Erzählen
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New skills for new futures: higher education guidance and counselling services in Austria: a country report of a study on "New skills for vocational guidance in higher education"
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The Stories of Somebodies.: Collective Telling, Seeing, and Knowing in Natalya Bekhta’s We-Narratives
Get PDFReview of: Natalya Bekhta: We-Narratives. Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction olumbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press 2020 (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series). 203 pp. USD 79.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1421-441
Naturalizing the Loki Principle.: Brian Richardson Explores the Narrative Dynamics of Experimental Fiction
Get PDFReview of: Brian Richardson: A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century. Theorizing Unruly Narratives. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press 2019 (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series). 218 pp. USD 69.95. ISBN 978-0-8142- 1412-
Die Kunst auf einem beschädigten Planeten zu leben.: Der dystopische Roman als Erzählform des Anthropozäns am Beispiel nordeuropäischer Literatur
Get PDFhe article deals with Nordic literature and discusses the question of whether the dystopian novel is an emblematic genre of the Anthropocene. Starting from an overview of the genre with regard to the Anthropocene narratives and aesthetics, it is argued that the dystopian novel seems at first glance to produce the metanarrative of the Anthropocene, which is supposed to explain the present as a zero point from which man either creates a better future or descends towards dystopia. On closer inspection, however, it becomes apparent that, on the contrary, even early dystopias tend to critically reflect and transgress the anthropocentrism and normative temporality of the Anthropocene. Drawing on evidence from a classical dystopian novel from the first half of the twentieth century, Karin Boye’s Kallocain, and the works of two younger writers, Johanna Sinisalo and Johannes Anyuru, it will be shown how these tendencies become established and reinforced. By interweaving utopia / dystopia with the here and now, these novels become the expression of ‘heterotopian thinking and writing,’ which is to be understood as a practice of “staying with the trouble” (Haraway 2016) and as an art of living on the damaged earth
The Rhetoric of Emergence in Narrative
Get PDFThis essay addresses rhetorical narratology’s approach to widely disparate scales of time and space in narratives of emergence, in which micro-events without centralized agents or clear causal relationships produce macro-scale effects. It uses rhetorical narratology’s a posteriori approach to address the difficulty of narrating causality between these scales and resists systematizing relationships of scale. Rhetorical narratology worries less about conditions of scalar interaction that undermine narratability, focusing instead on contingencies that mediate these scalar engagements. In particular, it explores hybrid relationships between rhetorical modes of narrative and lyric that emphasize interrelationships between event causality and conditions of being that are key in narratives of emergent behavior. If truth value is determined by ways that narratives establish coherent relationships between narrator and narratee in terms of purpose, then a rhetorical approach to scale and emergence considers how individuals use available resources to describe and explore relationships between different scales to achieve certain purposes
A Non-Narratable Future?: Narrating Climate Change in Contemporary Fiction
Get PDFWhenever one encounters theoretical discussions about contemporary climate change narratives, one word that is likely to appear is ‘crisis’: the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh, himself expressly concerned with the representation of climate change in his writing, has argued that “the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination” (2016, 9). This essay seeks to attempt a narratological-cum-ecocritical assessment of where the crisis of climate change’s cultural representation may reside; it will, at the same time, discuss select narrative texts that have made climate change their subject, namely Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007), Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010), and Jonathan Franzen’s The End of the End of the Earth (2018). It will also evaluate strategies of narration that may be more suited to capture the complexity and uncertainty of our planet’s future, such as the multi-linear, open-ended ‘future narrative’ (cf. Bode / Dietrich 2013; Meifert-Menhard 2013), arguing that narrative negotiations of climate change must adapt to the new historical and cultural conditions this phenomenon entails in order to avoid restrictive representations of what is, in fact, a hyperdimensional, open-ended, and multi-linear temporal development
Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme: Kai Mikkonens Studie zur Narratologie des Comics
Get PDFKai Mikkonen: The Narratology of Comic Art. New York / London 2017 (= Routledge Advances in Comics Studies Bd. 3). 312 S. GBP 110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-22155-