Narrative Negotiations
Information Structures in Literary Fiction
By (author) Kristin Veel
Hardback (Published)
(February 2009)
ISBN: 9783525206041
6.34 x 9.33 inches
Price: $23.00
In stock
Wie ändert sich erzählende Literatur unter dem Einfluss technisierter Kommunikation?
This book explores the impact of information and communication technology on the cultural imagination of our time by probing the conditions of literary fiction in an age characterised by information overload. What types of narrative do we find in a world in which vast amounts of information fills our inboxes and our lifeworlds on a daily basis? And how can these narratives be understood in a larger historical framework? The central argument of the book is that contemporary fiction continues an established pattern in the culture of modernity by simultaneously addressing, resisting and revitalising narrative structures through the incorporation of other modes of organising information. Focussing on the novel genre allows for a rigorous, in-depth study of this issue, enabling the narrative implications of structures such as the database, the hyperlink and the computer game to be placed in a wider historical context. The book thus deals with Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1829), Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930-42), and Arno Schmidt’s Zettels Traum (1970) as well as a number of texts from the last two decades in English, German, Scandinavian, and French by Jan KjAerstad, Thomas Hettche, Botho Straua, Reinhard Jirgl, Svend Age Madsen, Gunter Grass, David Mitchell, and Guy Tournaye. One of the book’s achievements is, moreover, to bring out the senses in which the influence of information technology on the formation of narrative negotiations can be extended to the analysis of other forms of cultural production, thereby pointing towards a more general concern with the present cultural condition of narrative and the influence of information and communication technology.
Kristin Veel ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Department of Arts and Cultural Studies an der Universität Kopenhagen.
- By (author) Kristin Veel
Similar Books
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises
J. M. G. Le Clézio - Enseigner les littératures francophones aujourd’hui - Récit de soi et expérience de l’illusion (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Volume 78
Cahiers de littérature française
Les Métamorphoses du texte. Enjeux intertextuels et transpositions visuelles
Volume 25
Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes – Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
Volume 51
Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures
Ponctuation et sens. Nouvelles perspectives / Punctuation and meaning. New perspectives
Volume 6
CompLit
Myth, Folklore and Magic in European Literatures. Critical and Contemporary Reconfigurations
Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
La Lettre clandestine
La littérature philosophique clandestine, ses éditeurs et ses éditions
Volume 34
La Revue des lettres modernes
« Afin que rien ne meure ». Le deuil dans et de l’œuvre de Marguerite Duras
Volume 9
