Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice
Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN: 978-90-04-18292-9
Verlag: Brill
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.
Narration 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.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
