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Turning points : concepts and narratives of change in literature and other media /
At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures - 'turning points' - in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever. Analysing literary, cinematic and other narratives, the volume seeks to understand the meanings conveyed by diffe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Turning Points as Metaphors and Mininarrations: Analysing Concepts of Change in Literature and Other Media
- I. Concepts of Change in Narrative Theory
- "With the Benefit of Hindsight": Features and Functions of Turning Points as a Narratological Concept and as a Way of Self-Making
- Turning Points in the Nineteenth-Century Novella: Poetic Negotiations and the Representation of Social Rituals
- Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistance to Peripeties in Modernist Writing
- The Missing Turning Points in the Story: Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Between Ethics and Epistemology
- "If the Stranger hadn't been there! ... But he was!" Causal, Virtual and Evaluative Dimensions of Turning Points in Alternate Histories, Science-Fiction Stories and Multiverse Narratives
- II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual Media
- On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels
- Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History
- (Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village
- Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature
- This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives
- III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing
- Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction
- Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier's and Hitchcock's Rebecca
- Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen's Match Point
- Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa's My Father's Wives
- A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen's Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot's Progress
- Becoming the 'Other': Metamorphosis and 'Turning Points' in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada
- IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History
- Lay Pamphlets in the Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre?
- The King is Dead, Long Live ... the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing
- Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
- Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre
- Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse
- Bridget Jones's Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction
- New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature
- V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory
- On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies
- Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis
- The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal
- Notes on Contributors.