Narrative in Culture

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The collection showcases new research in the field of cultural and historical narratology. Starting from the premise of the ‘semantisation of narrative forms’ (A. Nünning), it explores the cultural situatedness and historical transformations of narrative, with contributors developing new perspectives on key concepts of cultural and historical narratology, such as unreliable narration and multiperspectivity. The volume introduces original approaches to the study of narrative in culture, highlighting its pivotal role for attention, memory, and resilience studies, and for the imagination of crises, the Anthropocene, and the Post-Apocalypse. Addressing both fictional and non-fictional narratives, individual essays analyze the narrative-making and unmaking of Europe, Brexit, and the Postcolonial. Finally, the collection features new research on narrative in media culture, looking at the narrative logic of graphic novels, picture books, and newsmedia. Contents A Tale of Two Concepts: Ansgar Nünning at Sixty Stories of Dangerous Life in the Post- Trauma Age: Toward a Cultural Narratology of Resilience Mind the Narratives: Towards a Cultural Narratology of Attention The End of the World (as We Know It)? – Cultural Ways of Worldmaking in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives Plumbing Distant Spatiotemporal Scales: Towards an Econarratology of Planetary Memory in Narratives of the Global South Narrative Forms in the Age of the Anthropocene: Negotiating Human-Nonhuman Relations in Global South Novels Fact, Fiction, and Everything in-between: Strategies of Reader Activation in Postcolonial Graphic Narratives ‘It’s Not Our Opinion, It’s the Opinion of Our Roles’ – Fremdverstehen Revisited or: Where Foreign Language Education and Narratology Can Meet Narrative and Visual Resources of Culture in Contemporary Indigenous Children’s Books from Australia Troubling Justice: Narratives of Revenge Erin Burnett in Mali: Bardic Television and the Genealogy of Cultural Narratology New Media Narratives: Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy and Identity in the Digital Age The ‘Death’ of the Unreliable Narrator: Toward a Functional History of Narrative Unreliability Odyssean Travels: The Migration of Narrative Form (Homer – Lamb – Joyce) A European Storyteller? Collective Narration in John Berger’s Into Their Labours Brexit as Cultural Performance: Towards a Narratology of Social Drama Contributors