Narrated communities - narrated realities : : narration as cognitive processing and cultural practice / / edited by Hermann Blume, Christoph Leitgeb, Michael Rossner.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 183
• TeilnehmendeR: Blume, Hermann,; Leitgeb, Christoph,; Rössner, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 183.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Narrated Communities – Narrated Realities -- Editors’ Introduction / Editors Narrated Communities – Narrated Realities -- Stones, Mortar, Building Knowledge Production and Community Building in Narratives in Science / Jochen Gläser -- Narratives in Physics Quantitative Metaphors and formula ∈ Tropes? / Klaus Mecke -- “Render Innocuous the Abstraction We Fear” Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing / Michael Böhler -- Between Logos and Mythos Narratives of “Naturalness” in Today’s Particle Physics Community / Arianna Borrelli -- Philosophy as an “Introduction to a General Science of Revolution”? On Peter Sloterdijk’s Narrative-Evocative Philosophizing / Bernd Bösel -- Narrative Persuasion and Narrative Irritation in Psychotherapy Biographical Narratives, Deferred Dramaturgy and Narrative Affirmation / Brigitte Boothe -- Narrating the Uncanny – Uncanny Narration Freud’s Essay and Theories of Fiction / Christoph Leitgeb -- Literature and (Ethno-)Nationalist Narratives in the (Post-)Yugoslav Region / Elena Messner -- Doris Lessing’s “Alfred and Emily” and the Ethics of Narrated Memory / Dorothee Birke -- Closed Timelike Curves Gödel’s Solution for Einstein’s Field Equations 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” / Aura Heydenreich -- Translatio/ns of Identity-Building Narratives The Character of “El Cid” in Spanish and Latin American Texts from the 12th to the 20th Century / Michael Rössner -- The Politics of Images Considerations on French Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art (ca.1800 – circa1880) as a Paradigm of Narration and Translation / Antonio Baldassarre -- Notes on Contributors / Editors Narrated Communities – Narrated Realities -- Index of Names / Editors Narrated Communities – Narrated Realities.