Full Description
Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and perceive reality. In this light narration is a fundamental cultural technique. What is considered "fictitious" or "real" no longer separates narratives from an "outside" they refer to, but rather represents different narratives.
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.
Contents
Contents
Editors' Introduction: A Sociological Perspective on Science and Narration
Jochen Gläser
Stones, Mortar, Building: Knowledge Production and Community Building in Narratives in Science
Narrated Realities
Narration and Abstraction in Natural Sciences
Klaus Mecke
Narratives in Physics: Quantitative Metaphors and formula ∈Tropes?
Michael Böhler
"Render Innocuous the Abstraction We Fear": Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing
Arianna Borrelli
Between Logos and Mythos: Narratives of "Naturalness" in Today's Particle Physics Community
Narration, Fiction and the Entangled Human Sciences
Bernd Bösel
Philosophy as an "Introduction to a General Science of Revolution"? On Peter Sloterdijk's Narrative-Evocative Philosophizing
Brigitte Boothe
Narrative Persuasion and Narrative Irritation in Psychotherapy: Bio- graphical Narratives, Deferred Dramaturgy and Narrative Affirmation
Christoph Leitgeb
Narrating the Uncanny - Uncanny Narration: Freud's Essay and Theories of Fiction
Narrated Communities
Narration, Memory and Identity
Elena Messner
Literature and (Ethno-)Nationalist Narratives in the (Post-)Yugoslav Region
Dorothee Birke
Doris Lessing's "Alfred and Emily" and the Ethics of Narrated Memory
Aura Heydenreich
Closed Timelike Curves: Gödel's Solution for Einstein's Field Equa- tions in the General Theory of Relativity and Bach's "The Musical Offering" as Configuration Models for Narrative Identity Constructions in Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing"
Translating Narrations into Different Cultures and Media
Michael Rössner
Translatio/ns of Identity-Building Narratives: The Character of "El Cid" in Spanish and Latin American Texts from the 12th to the 20th Century
Antonio Baldassarre
The Politics of Images: Considerations on French Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art (ca. 1800-ca. 1880) as a Paradigm of Narration and Translation
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
