Research Catalog

Title

Narrated communities - narrated realities : narration as cognitive processing and cultural practice / edited by Hermann Blume, Christoph Leitgeb, Michael Rössner.

Publication

• Leiden : Brill, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blume, Hermann
• Leitgeb, Christoph
• Rössner, Michael

Description

263 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and how they perceive reality. In this perspective narration, as a basic form of cognitive processing, is a fundamental cultural technique. Narrations provide the coherence, temporal organization and semantic integration that are essential for the development and communication of identity, knowledge and orientation in a socio-cultural context. In essence, Anderson's 'Imagined Communities' need to be thought of as 'Narrated Communities' from the beginning. Narration is made up by what people think; and vice versa, narration makes up people's thoughts. What is considered "fictitious" or "real" no longer separates narratives from an "outside" they refer to, but rather represents different narratives.0Narration not only constructs notions of what was real; in retrospect, but also prospectively creates possible worlds, even in the (supposedly hard) sciences, as in e.g. the imaginative simulation of physical processes. The book's unique interdisciplinary approach shows how the implications of this fundamental insight go far beyond the sphere of literature and carry weight for both scholarly and scientific disciplines.

Series Statement

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 183

Uniform Title

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 183.

Subject

• Culture > Philosophy
• Narrative inquiry (Research method)
• Narrativität
• Wirklichkeit
• Gruppenidentität

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-4407

ISBN

• 9789004182929
• 9004182926
• 9789004184121 (canceled/invalid)
• 9004184120 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

908334821

Title

Narrated communities - narrated realities : narration as cognitive processing and cultural practice / edited by Hermann Blume, Christoph Leitgeb, Michael Rössner.

Publisher

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 183

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 183.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Blume, Hermann, editor.

Leitgeb, Christoph, editor.

Rössner, Michael, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4407