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Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives (Concepts for the Study of Culture) by Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann; in collaboration with Mirjam Horn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Now available in paperback! Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s 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 Goodman’s 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.

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Author

Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann; in collaboration with Mirjam Horn

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110227567

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Language Learning, Literary Fiction