»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 facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal choices, models of argumentation, and narrative patterns. By considering »writing facts« and »writing facts«, the volume shows why and how »facts« are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on »fact« and its impact on modernity.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 330
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
28 February 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837662719
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Susanne Knaller (Prof. Dr.) teaches cultural studies and general and comparative literature at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. In 2002, she received her habilitation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. In 2009, she founded the research department General and Comparative Literature (AVL) in Graz. Since 2013, she has been the director of the Centre for Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on aesthetic theories 18th to 21st century, theory of authenticity, concepts of reality in modernity, emotion theories, writing as practice.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Writing Facts 9
Facts in Modernity 29
Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making 53
Facts 85
Writing Social Facts 93
Writing 'Volksgemeinschaft' into 'Fact' 107
Manufacturing Legal Facts 125
Towards a Poetics of Fact 143
'Writing Facts' and 19th-Century English Realist Fiction 163
A 'Real' Novel? 191
Rewriting Gender? 205
The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20th and Early 21st Century) 221
"One + One is one two. Two is one two" 239
An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts 255
Snapshot and Wage Table 273
(Body) Positivity in Social Media 291
'Patchwriting' as Unintentional Fact Writing 311
