Conference “Beyond Narrative: Literature, Culture, and the Borderlands of Narrativity” (Leipzig, 10-12 October 2019)

Organizers: Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler, Stefan Schubert

Scholarship in the wake of the ‘narrative turn’ has often tended to either expand the conceptual breadth of ‘narrative’ to encompass almost any form of cultural expression or to diagnose a binary opposition between narrative and non-narrative symbolic forms. The former tendency, a willingness to assume an a priori narrative quality in nearly everything, has diminished the value of narrative as an analytic category, while the latter, a tendency to dichotomize narrative and non-narrative forms, has obscured the extent to which the two mix, overlap, a ... Читать дальше »