Narrative(s) in Conflict

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Narrative(s) in Conflict

Edited by: Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Clemens Ruthner

Volume 10 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110556858

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About this book

Narrative/s in Conflict presents the proceedings of an international workshop, held at the Trinity Long Room Hub Dublin in 2013, to a wider audience. This was a cross-disciplinary cooperation between the comparative research network 'Broken Narratives' (University of Vienna), the research strand 'Identities in Transformation' (Trinity College Dublin) and the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen.

What has brought this informal network together is its credo that theories of narrative should be regarded as an integral part of cultural analysis. Choosing exemplary case studies from early Habsburg days up to the the wars and genocides of the 20th century and the post-9/11 'War on terror', our volume tries to analyze the relation between representation and conflict, i.e. between narrative constructions, social/historical processes, and cultural agon. Here it is crucial to state that narratives do not simply and passively 'mirror' conflicts as the conventional ‘realistic’ paradigm suggests; they rather provide a symbolic, sense-making matrix, and even a performative dimension. It even can be said that in many cases, narratives make conflicts.

Author / Editor information

Clemens Ruthner, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Wolfgang Müller-Funk, University of Vienna, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface by the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Broken Narratives: Modernism and the Tradition of Rupture Wolfgang Müller-Funk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Discourses on the Ottomans in Old Hungarian Literature: Observations on a Volatile Image Andrea Seidler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Ivan Mažuranić’s The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (1846): The Controversial Reception of an Epic Poem Davor Dukić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Conflicting Narratives: Notes on the Compositional Nature of Poems in Prose Rüdiger Görner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Conflict, Narration, and Satirical Violence in Karl Kraus’ Die Fackel António Sousa Ribeiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Peace Talks Between Image and Word: Carl Einstein’s Struggle for a Non-Totalizing Ekphrasis Nicola Creighton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Importance of Conflict Elsewhere: Francis Stuart’s and Hugo Hamilton’s Literary Engagements with Germany and the Second World War Dorothea Depner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Damaged Words and Closed Houses: Everyday World and Memory Narratives in Georges Perec Johanna-Charlotte Horst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
The Sovereign’s Broken Voice: On the Cinematic Politics of Representation Isabel Capeloa Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
“Hurt Identities?” The Postwar Bosnian Narrative of Self-Victimization Ana Mijić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Collateral Roadkill: The Conflicted Death of “Central Europe” en route to Sarajevo and Brussels Clemens Ruthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Stories as “Weapons of Mass Destruction”: George W. Bush’s Narratives of Crisis as Paradigm Examples of Ways of World- and Conflict-Making (and Conflict-Solving?) Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, students and others interested in cultural studies and theory, literature, history, philosophy, and media studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 235
Keywords: Narrative; culture; conflict; rupture

eBook

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110556858

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110555646