: Ansgar Nünning, Kai Marcel Sicks
: Turning Points Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110297102
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At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures–‘turning points’– in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever. Analysing literary, cinematic and other narratives, the volume seeks to understand the meanings conveyed by different concepts of turning points, the alternative concepts to which they are opposed when used to explain historical change, and those contexts in which they are unmasked as false and over-simplifying constructions.



< >Ansgar NünnungandKai Sicks, Justus-Liebig-Universitä , Gießen, Germany.
Turning Points as Metaphors and Mininarrations: Analysing Concepts of Change in Literature and Other Media11
I. Conceptualising Turning Points in Narrative Theory39
“With the Benefit of Hindsight”: Features and Functions of Turning Points as a Narratological Concept and as a Way of Self-Making41
Turning Points in the Nineteenth-Century Novella: Poetic Negotiations and the Representation of Social Rituals69
Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistance to Peripeties in Modernist Writing83
The Missing Turning Points in the Story: Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Between Ethics and Epistemology95
“If the Stranger hadn’t been there! But he was!” Causal, Virtual and Evaluative Dimensions of Turning Points in Alternate Histories, Science-Fiction Stories and Multiverse Narratives117
II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual media133
On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels135
Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History155
(Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village169
Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature185
This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives201
III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing221
Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction223
Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier’s and Hitchcock’s Rebecca239
Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen’s Match Point255
Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives279
A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen’s Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot’s Progress295
Becoming the ‘Other’: Metamorphosis and ‘Turning Points’ in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada311
IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History327
Lay Pamphlets in Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre?329
The King is Dead, Long Live. the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing – Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)347
Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre361
Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse371
Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction381
New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature397
V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory415
On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies417
Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis435
The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal447
Notes on Contributors463