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Writing facts : interdisciplinary discussions of a key concept in modernity /

»Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Knaller, Susanne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2023.
Series:Lettre.
Subjects:
Facts (Philosophy)
Civilization, Modern.
Faits (Philosophie)
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Civilization, Modern
Arts.
British Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Language.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Media.
Society.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Writing Facts
  • THEORY AND HISTORY
  • Facts in Modernity
  • Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making
  • Facts
  • WRITING SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND LAW
  • Writing Social Facts
  • Writing 'Volksgemeinschaft' into 'Fact'
  • Manufacturing Legal Facts
  • LITERATURE AND ARTS
  • Towards a Poetics of Fact
  • 'Writing Facts' and 19th-Century English Realist Fiction
  • A 'Real' Novel?
  • Rewriting Gender?
  • The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20th and Early 21st Century)
  • "One + One is one two. Two is one two"
  • MEDIA AND WRITING PRACTICE
  • An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts
  • Snapshot and Wage Table
  • (Body) Positivity in Social Media
  • 'Patchwriting' as Unintentional Fact Writing