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Culture and psyche in transition : a European perspective on student psychological health: Conference papers from the 25th Annual Training Event
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Grenzenlose Erzähltheorie?: 36 grundlegende Beiträge zum Erzählen in und jenseits der Literatur in einem von Martin Huber und Wolf Schmid herausgegeben Handbuch
Full text linkMartin Huber / Wolf Schmid (Hg.): Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Erzählen. Berlin / Boston, MA: de Gruyter 2017 (= Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft). 659 S. EUR 159,95. ISBN 978-3-11-040118-
Medienkulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Narrative und Narrationen für positive Zukünfte einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung und Transformation
Full text linkFacing climate crisis and other environmental problems that might shape our future, narrative practices are being developed to build positive images and narratives of possible futures. These practices come from a variety of cultural and political areas and fields, as well as from actors in the sphere of communication on climate and related issues of sustainable development. This article focuses on those approaches which aim to create “realistic utopias.” Realistic utopia means that the utopian future is based on knowledge currently available, and formulated in a way that presents its realization as possible. The genres and forms used to communicate these utopian narratives range from literature, journalistic forms, theatre, film to radio. This article examines some prominent and most recent forms of utopian narration
Formvollendetes Leiden an ästhetisierten Krankheiten im aktuellen Jugend- bzw. All-Age-Roman
Full text link“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, [...], is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling” (Burke 1958, 36), writes Edmund Burke 1757 in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The idea that pain, danger and terror are much stronger impressions than pleasure, and may be classified as “sources of the sublime”, not only inspired philosophers like Kant, it also can be found in recent young adult literature, in particular the subgenre of Sick Lit, where suffering from a terminal illness is often represented as a sublime condition. Using the examples of Lara Schützsack’s Und auch so bitterkalt (2014), a novel about an anorexic female character, and Anthony McCarten’s novel Superhero (2007), which focuses on a male cancer patient, this article aims to explore the literary strategies employed in illness narratives, emphasizing their aesthetical dimensions
Fiction, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self
Full text linkThe claim that literary fiction is a valuable source of knowledge can be confronted with the following skeptical objection: on a standard account of the conditions for both the possession and transmission of knowledge, fiction cannot be considered a source of knowledge, for we are not justified in believing any claims from fiction. Our paper argues that the skeptic is wrong. We will start by introducing the notion of self-knowledge, the knowledge a person has of their own conscious attitudes, and distinguish it from knowledge of the self. Both kinds of knowledge concern a person’s beliefs about herself, but they differ in their precise scope and justificatory conditions. We will then argue that the self-knowledge one easily gains by reading fiction is an important route to knowledge of the self, which in turn is hard to obtain, and that a case can be made for literary fiction being an especially valuable source of knowledge of the self
Von und durch Neid erzählen: Rhetoriken des Neids in Konrads Engelhard
Full text linkIn academic debates of the 12th and 13th centuries, accusing one’s opponent of envy became a widespread feature. In the tradition of Roman literature, which connected virtus and invidia, the envy-reproach device was used to discredit critics as well as to strengthen one’s own position in intellectual discussions. This ‚rhetoric of envy‘ was soon taken up in vernacular literature. Existing research has shown that envy was invoked in prologues and epilogues as a means for an author to secure a favorable reception of his work. This essay argues that envy was also used to direct the reader’s understanding of the histoire. By examining how and when the narrator talks about envy in Konrad’s Engelhard, I aim to show that envy reshapes the ethics of the narrative: In the trial scene truthful accusations are transformed into envious speech acts. Envy shifts attention from the transgression of the protagonist to the moral failure of the antagonist. To conclude, I suggest the wider relevance of this special form of strategic narration by comparing Engelhard with other texts that involve the trial of a protagonist
Die Krankheitserzählung auf dem Prüfstand der Praxis
Full text linkTagungsbericht zur internationalen Tagung „Illness Narratives in Practice“, Institut für Psychologie der Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 26./27. Juni 201
Narration and Escalation: An Empirical Study of Conflict Narratives
Full text linkThis article describes the methodology and the outcomes of an empirical study of conflict narratives. The narratological analysis deployed narratological categories in the structuralist tradition based on Genette and was conducted with the help of the text annotation tool CATMA. The analysis aimed at covering as many narratological phenomena as possible by establishing 14 fields of narratological phenomena that were annotated in a corpus of 39 factual narratives about situations at the workplace with and without conflicts. The evaluation of approximately 28,000 annotations brought to light a series of interrelations between narratological phenomena and the presence or absence of conflicts in the narratives. Additionally, this approach led to the identification of some oversights of narrative theory by detecting hitherto unnoticed interrelations among narratological concepts