Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Abstract

Introduction: ways of worldmaking as a model for the study of culture: theoretical frameworks, epistemological underpinnings, new horizons / Ansgar Nunning and Vera Nunning -- Theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking. 'I believe that the world' / Steven Connor -- Three theories of literary worldmaking: phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), constructivist (Nelson Goodman), cognitive psychologist (Schank and Abelson) / Herbert Grabes -- Worldmaking as fate / Ben Dawson -- The politics of symbolic forms / Frederik Tygstrup -- Media as ways of worldmaking. Media as ways of worldmaking: media-specific structures and intermedial dynamics / Birgit Nuemann and Martin Zierold -- Remarks on the historicity of the media concept / Knut Ove Eilassen -- Do media determine our situation? Friedrich Kittler's application of information theory to the humanities / Stephen Sale -- Irreducible vagueness: augmented worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur building / Ulrik Ekman -- Narratives as ways of worldmaking. Making events-making stories-making worlds: ways of worldmaking from a narratological point of view / Ansgar Nunning -- The making of fictional worlds: processes, features, and functions / Vera Nunning -- Literary worldmaking / Inger Ostenstad -- Fictional narratives and their ways of spiritual worldmaking: (de-)constructing the realm of transcendence in City of God by way of metafiction and multiperspectivity / Hanna Bingel -- Narrating life: early modern accounts of the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689 / Elisabeth Waghall Nivre and Maren Eckart -- Seeing a world unmade, and making a world (out) of remains: the post-apocalyptic re-visions of W.S. Merwin and Carolyn Forche / Rene Dietrich.