http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
viii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Ways of worldmaking as a model for the study of culture: theoretical frameworks, epistemological underpinnings, new horizons / Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning -- 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 -- Worlds made of concrete and celluloid: the London Council Estate in Nil by mouth and Wonderland / Matthew Taunton -- Narratives as ways of worldmaking. Making events-making stories-making worlds: ways of worldmaking from a narratological point of view / Ansgar Nünning -- The making of fictional worlds: processes, features, and functions / Vera Nünning -- Literary worldmaking / Inger Østenstad -- Writing lives and 'worlds': English fictional biography at the turn of the 21st century / Caroline Lusin -- 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 Wåghäll 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 Forché / René Dietrich.
edited by Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann ; in collaboration with Mirjam Horn.