Detailansicht
Cultural Ways of Worldmaking
Media and Narratives, Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) 1
ISBN/EAN: 9783110227550
Umbreit-Nr.: 1843084
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: VIII, 361 S., 2 s/w Illustr., 2 b/w ill.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 15.06.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
- Zusatztext
- Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodmans theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book Ways of Worldmaking, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodmans philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.
- Kurztext
- Die Reihe widmet sich zentralen neueren Konzepten und Methoden im Feld der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung und inhaltlichen Fragestellungen. Sie zielt darauf, die gegenwärtige Diskussion in den Kulturwissenschaften weiter zu profilieren und sie zugleich für die Arbeit in den Disziplinen fruchtbar zu machen.
- Autorenportrait
- Vera Nünning, Heidelberg University; Ansgar Nünning and Birgit Neumann, Justus Liebig University Giessen.