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"Geschichte wird erzählt" lässt sich als Konsens in der geschichtstheoretischen Diskussion über die Darstellung von Geschichte festhalten. Darüber, wie Geschichte erzählt wird, besteht erkennbarer Dissens. Der vorliegende Band überführt die Analyse nationalhistoriografischer Narrative in eine erzähltheoretische Systematik und macht diese Texte in ihrer ästhetisch-literarischen Repräsentation, Erzählhaltung und -konvention als Konstrukt sichtbar. Das erarbeitete textstrukturelle Werkzeug zeigt auf, wie eine historiografisch-erzähltheoretische Analyse nationaler "Meisternarrative" entlang analytischer Kategorien funktionieren kann, um Geschichte(n) systematisch dekonstruierbar zu machen. Indem analytische Kategorien der Erzähltextanalyse für diese besondere Form des Erzähltextes adaptiert und/oder (neu) definiert und direkt auf das Korpus (Nipperdey, Wehler, Winkler) angewendet werden, kann gezeigt werden, wie Historiker:innen historiografisch erzählen. Die hier vorgelegte Narratologie historiografischer "Meisternarrative" liefert somit einen formal erweiterten Werkzeugkasten, der die theoretische Diskussion um die Frage, wie Geschichte erzählt wird, kategorial perspektiviert. "History is told" is largely the consensus in discussions of history theory about the representation of history. There is, however, a discernible disagreement about how history is told. This volume transfers selected national historiographical narratives into a narrative-theoretical systematics and makes these texts visible in their aesthetic-literary representation, narrative attitude and convention as a construct.

German National History. --- Historiography. --- Literary Theory. --- Narratology. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

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This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar Jarrar all focus on the Arab world in their work; on the lives of ordinary and minority peoples; and on the revolutions of their respective nations. This volume shows how these contemporary Anglo-Arab novelists exhibit linguistic experimentation akin to Deleuze’s and Guattari’s theory of ‘deterritorialization’, but in a way that is unique to Anglo-Arab writing. The selected novelists repudiate the use of metamorphosis, which is usually an essential part of the deterritorialization of a major language. Instead, their writings enact the minor practice of linguistic deterritorialization by using metaphor and by incorporating contemporary modes of protest like popular slogans, tweets, and chants. These authors challenge the conventions of minor literature and, by adopting this mode of deterritorialization, foreground the experiences of officially silenced voices. Abida Younas is a postgraduate tutor at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has contributed to a number of journals, including “Magical Realism and Metafiction in Post-Arab Spring Literature: Narratives of Discontent or Celebration?” for the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2018).

Middle Eastern literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Postmodernism. --- Middle Eastern Literature. --- Narratology. --- Post-Modern Philosophy. --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Near Eastern literature

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This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm; Chapter 3 intervenes in debates about technological evolution, analogue vs. digital subjectivity, and affect theory; and Chapter 4 intervenes in debates about autofiction, contemporary metafiction, and the position and role of the narrator in first-person narratives where the narrator and protagonist can be distinguished. The analytical conclusion sketches the conceptual anatomy of the hyperobject and three possible responses. No part of the Earth today is free from human influence, but literary success suggests effective real-world strategies. Chingshun J. Sheu is Assistant Professor of Applied English at Ming Chuan University. His research focuses on contemporary American fiction, literary theory, narratology, and Alain Badiou. Having published essays on William Gaddis, Orson Scott Card, and Taiwanese author Chang Hsiu-ya, he is also the premier English-language film critic in Taiwan.

Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Ecocriticism. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Narratology. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature, Modern --- America --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Literature