Writing Facts: Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Writing Facts

Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity

Edited by: Susanne Knaller

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462713

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About this book

»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 »fact« and its impact on modernity.

Author / Editor information

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Writing Facts A Short Introduction Susanne Knaller Open Access Download PDF	9
THEORY AND HISTORY
Facts in Modernity A Multifarious History of Meanings, Forms, and Purposes Susanne Knaller Open Access Download PDF	29
Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making Modest Reflections on the Genesis, Role, and Status of Facts Ansgar Nünning Open Access Download PDF	53
Facts What We Know about Them in the Postmodern Era Philipp Sarasin Open Access Download PDF	85
WRITING SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND LAW
Writing Social Facts Some Observations on Max Weber’s Concept of Modern Politics Harro Müller Open Access Download PDF	93
Writing ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ into ‘Fact’ Letters from the National Socialist Labor Service (RAD) Gero von Roedern Open Access Download PDF	107
Manufacturing Legal Facts Kristin Y. Albrecht and Sebastian Ibing Open Access Download PDF	125
LITERATURE AND ARTS
Towards a Poetics of Fact Subjugated Knowledges, Historiographic Metafiction, and the ‘Terrible Truth’ behind Words in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature Stefan L. Brandt Open Access Download PDF	143
‘Writing Facts’ and 19^th-Century English Realist Fiction Theoretical Reflections and the Complexity of the Relationship in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, and George Eliots Adam Bede Werner Wolf Open Access Download PDF	163
A ‘Real’ Novel? Narrating Facts in El hombre que amaba a los perros Iyari Martínez Márquez Open Access Download PDF	191
Rewriting Gender? (De)constructions of Masculinities between Scientific Discourse and Literary Practice Riccardo Schöfberger Open Access Download PDF	205
The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20^th and Early 21^st Century) Annette Simonis Open Access Download PDF	221
“One + One is one two. Two is one two” (De-)Construction of Facts and Documentarism in Hanne Darboven’s Schreibzeit (1975-1999) Monika Voithofer Open Access Download PDF	239
MEDIA AND WRITING PRACTICE
An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts Louis de Cahusac’s La Danse Ancienne et Moderne ou Traité Historique de la Danse (1754) Rita Rieger Open Access Download PDF	255
Snapshot and Wage Table The Importance of Facts in the Reports of Hugo von Kupffer (1853-1928) and Max Winter (1870-1937) Mario Huber Open Access Download PDF	273
(Body) Positivity in Social Media Mise-en-scène and Performing Digital Facticity Elke Höfler Open Access Download PDF	291
‘Patchwriting’ as Unintentional Fact Writing Doris Pany-Habsa Open Access Download PDF	311

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Keywords: Literature; Arts; Society; Media; Language; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies; British Studies

eBook

Published: January 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839462713