The Politics of Symbolic Forms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Ways of Worldmaking as a Model for the Studyof Culture: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Underpinnings, New Horizons 1
4. I. Theoretical Approaches to Ways of Worldmaking
5. ‘I Believe That the World’ 27
6. Three Theories of Literary Worldmaking: Phenomenological (Roman Ingarden), Constructivist (Nelson Goodman), Cognitive Psychologist (Schank and Abelson) 47
7. Worldmaking as Fate 61
8. The Politics of Symbolic Forms 87
9. II. Media as Ways of Worldmaking
10. Media as Ways of Worldmaking: Media-specific Structures and Intermedial Dynamics 101
11. Remarks on the Historicity of the Media Concept 119
12. Do Media Determine Our Situation? Friedrich Kittler's Application of Information Theory to the Humanities 137
13. Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur Building 149
14. Worlds Made of Concrete and Celluloid: The London Council Estate in Nil By Mouth and Wonderland 175
15. III. Narratives as Ways of Worldmaking
16. Making Events – Making Stories – Making Worlds: Ways of Worldmaking from a Narratological Point of View 189
17. The Making of Fictional Worlds: Processes, Features, and Functions 215
18. Literary Worldmaking 245
19. Writing Lives and ‘Worlds’: English Fictional Biography at the Turn of the 21st Century 265
20. Fictional Narratives and Their Ways of Spiritual Worldmaking: (De-)Constructing the Realm of Transcendence in City of God by Way of Metafiction and Multiperspectivity 287
21. Narrating Life: Early Modern Accounts of the Life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) 307
22. Seeing a World Unmade, and Making a World (Out) of Remains: The Post-Apocalyptic Re-Visions of W. S. Merwin and Carolyn Forché 329
23. Backmatter 355