Cullhed / Rydholm True Lies Worldwide

History and Recent Developments
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-030320-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary and Cultural Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cullhed, Anders

Rydholm, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Here, There – and Everywhere? Eastern examples;13
2.1;Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction;15
2.2;Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature;43
2.3;Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction;63
3;Fictional Spaces: Image, Language & Identity;77
3.1;The Fiction of the Image;79
3.2;Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction;95
3.3;Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity;107
4;Live Fiction: Play & Performances;121
4.1;Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng’s Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi’s Commentary;123
4.2;Performing Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances;149
5;Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives;163
5.1;Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges;165
5.2;Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth?;179
5.3;Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative;191
5.4;How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century);201
6;Telling Tales: Narratology & Fictionality;213
6.1;Toward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies;215
6.2;General Beliefs from Fiction;239
6.3;Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History;253
7;The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments;271
7.1;Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time;273
7.2;Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road;287
7.3;Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America;301
8;Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction;311
8.1;Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of Literature;313
8.2;Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity;323
9;List of Contributors;337
10;Index of Names;345

Über Autor(innen)

Anders Cullhed, Stockholm University, Sweden; Lena Rydholm, Uppsala University, Sweden.