Narrative In Culture

Author : Astrid Erll,Roy Sommer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110652307

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Narrative in Culture by Astrid Erll,Roy Sommer Pdf

The collection showcases new research in the field of cultural and historical narratology. Starting from the premise of the ‘semantisation of narrative forms’ (A. Nünning), it explores the cultural situatedness and historical transformations of narrative, with contributors developing new perspectives on key concepts of cultural and historical narratology, such as unreliable narration and multiperspectivity. The volume introduces original approaches to the study of narrative in culture, highlighting its pivotal role for attention, memory, and resilience studies, and for the imagination of crises, the Anthropocene, and the Post-Apocalypse. Addressing both fictional and non-fictional narratives, individual essays analyze the narrative-making and unmaking of Europe, Brexit, and the Postcolonial. Finally, the collection features new research on narrative in media culture, looking at the narrative logic of graphic novels, picture books, and newsmedia.

Author : Cristopher Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134960781

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Narrative in Culture by Cristopher Nash Pdf

Discourse can no longer be contained within the frameworks of literature and linguistics. It has broken through the barriers between subjects and dominates the way we relate to each other and to the world. Even where we least expect it, `storytelling' is going on, and the implications of this are vast. This is the view universally shared by the writers contributing to this book. Specialists in economics, law, the history and semiotics of science, psychology, politics, philosophy, and literary theory and criticism, they are a uniquely cross-disciplinary group.

Author : Richard Wirth,Dario Serrati,Katarzyna Macedulska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848884403

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Storying Humanity: Narratives of Culture and Society by Richard Wirth,Dario Serrati,Katarzyna Macedulska Pdf

Author : Jens Brockmeier,David R Olson,Min Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136858031

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Literacy, Narrative and Culture by Jens Brockmeier,David R Olson,Min Wang Pdf

First book from the new World of Writing series Interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of linguistics, psychology, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and history of art Illustrated with black and white plates of works by Wyndham Lewis and David Jones, including the painted frontispiece to T.S. Eliott's A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday

Author : Cheryl Mattingly,Linda C. Garro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520218256

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Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing by Cheryl Mattingly,Linda C. Garro Pdf

"A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."—Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." —Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives

Author : Janice Carlisle,Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337913

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Narrative and Culture by Janice Carlisle,Daniel R. Schwarz Pdf

Narrative and Culture draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media—photography, film, television. The primary subject of these pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is “the relation between the telling of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the practices of specific societies.” Contributors: Nina Auerbach, Thomas B. Byers, Jay Clayton, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Mary Lou Emery, Colleen Kennedy, Vera Mark, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Paul Morrison, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, John Carlos Rowe, Daniel R. Schwarz, Carol Siegel, Felipe Smith

Author : Robert Fulford
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887848940

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The Triumph of Narrative by Robert Fulford Pdf

Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. Narrative, Fulford points out, is how we explain, how we teach, how we entertain ourselves - often all at once. It is the bundle in which we wrap truth, hope, and dread. It is crucial to civilization. Fulford writes engagingly and energetically about narrative history, narrative in news coverage, the rise of electronic narrative, and narrative as it flourishes in the form of gossip, "the folk-art version of literature," revealing to us the mystery, power, and importance of story in all our lives.

Author : Astrid Erll,Roy Sommer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110654370

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Narrative in Culture by Astrid Erll,Roy Sommer Pdf

The collection showcases new research in the field of cultural and historical narratology. Starting from the premise of the ‘semantisation of narrative forms’ (A. Nünning), it explores the cultural situatedness and historical transformations of narrative, with contributors developing new perspectives on key concepts of cultural and historical narratology, such as unreliable narration and multiperspectivity. The volume introduces original approaches to the study of narrative in culture, highlighting its pivotal role for attention, memory, and resilience studies, and for the imagination of crises, the Anthropocene, and the Post-Apocalypse. Addressing both fictional and non-fictional narratives, individual essays analyze the narrative-making and unmaking of Europe, Brexit, and the Postcolonial. Finally, the collection features new research on narrative in media culture, looking at the narrative logic of graphic novels, picture books, and newsmedia.

Author : Jens Brockmeier,Donal A. Carbaugh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789027226419

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Narrative and Identity by Jens Brockmeier,Donal A. Carbaugh Pdf

Annotation This text evolved out of a December 1995 conference at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, attended by scholars from psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, social sciences, literary theory, classics, communication, and film theory, and exploring the importance of narrative as an expression of our experience, as a form of communication, and as a form for understanding the world and ourselves. Nine scholars from Canada, the US, and Europe contribute 12 essays on the relationship between narrative and human identity, how we construct what we call our lives and create ourselves in the process. Coverage includes theoretical perspectives on the problem of narrative and self construction, specific life stories in their cultural contexts, and empirical and theoretical issues of autobiographical memory and narrative identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Margaret K. Reid
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780814209479

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Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form by Margaret K. Reid Pdf

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America examines the interplay between the familiar and the forgotten in tales of America's first century as a nation. By studying both the common concerns and the rising tensions between the known and the unknown, the told and the untold, this book offers readers new insight into the making of a nation through stories. Here, identity is built not so much through the winnowing competition of perspectives as through the cumulative layering of stories, derived from sources as diverse as rumors circulating in early patriot newspapers and the highest achievements of aesthetic culture. And yet this is not a source study: the interaction of texts is reciprocal, and the texts studied are not simply complementary but often jarring in their interrelations. The result is a new model of just how some of America's central episodes of self-definition -- the Puritan legacy, the Revolutionary War, and the Western frontier -- have achieved near mythic force in the national imagination. The most powerful myths of national identity, this author argues, are not those that erase historical facts but those able to transform such facts into their own deep resources. Book jacket.

Author : Armin W. Geertz,Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545484

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Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture by Armin W. Geertz,Jeppe Sinding Jensen Pdf

'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

Author : Centers of Disease Control
Publisher : Health Evidence Network Synthe
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 928905168X

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Cultural Contexts of Health by Centers of Disease Control Pdf

Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behavior that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language, and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for appraising it, and gives three detailed case examples: diet and nutrition, well-being, and mental health in refugees and asylum seekers. Storytelling and story interpretation belong to the humanistic disciplines and are not a pure science, although established techniques of social science can be applied to ensure rigor in sampling and data analysis. The case studies illustrate how narrative research can convey the individual experience of illness and well-being, thereby complementing and sometimes challenging epidemiological and public health evidence.

Author : Wendy A Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317078289

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Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism by Wendy A Adams Pdf

Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law. In narrating our identities, we draw upon collective cultural narratives, and our narrative/nomos obligational selves become the nexus for law and popular culture as mutually constitutive discourse. The author demonstrates the efficacy and desirability of applying a pluralist legal analysis to examine a much broader scope of subject matter than is possible through the restricted perspective of state law alone. The study considers whether presumptively illegal acts might actually be instances of a re-imagined, alternative legality, and the concomitant implications. As an illustrative example, works of critical dystopia and the beliefs and behaviours of eco/animal-terrorists can be understood as shared narrative and normative commitments that constitute law just as fully as does the state when it legislates and adjudicates. This book will be of great interest to academics and scholars of law and popular culture, as well as those involved in interdisciplinary work in legal pluralism.

Author : Bruce Bradshaw
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801022890

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Change Across Cultures by Bruce Bradshaw Pdf

"Points out the necessity of changing [cultural] narratives if real values-transformation is to take place. This is an important work." --Peter Riddell, London Bible College

Author : Danièle M. Klapproth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197426

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Narrative as Social Practice by Danièle M. Klapproth Pdf

Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Australian culture of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Aborigines. Combining discourse-analytical and pragmalinguistic methodologies with the perspectives of ethnopoetics and the ethnography of communication, this book presents a highly original and engaging study of storytelling as a vital communicative activity at the heart of socio-cultural life. The book is concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues. It engages critically with the theoretical framework of social constructivism and the notion of social practice, and it offers critical discussions of the most influential theories of narrative put forward in Western thinking. Arguing for the adoption of a communication-oriented and cross-cultural perspective as a prerequisite for improving our understanding of the cultural variability of narrative practice, Klapproth presents detailed textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, and contextualizes them with respect to the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. Narrative as Social Practice offers new insights to students and specialists in the fields of narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, folklore study, the ethnography of communication, and Australian Aboriginal studies.