Baltic Peripeties

The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions

319 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Aristotle’s Poetics, the well-constructed turning point, peripeteia, makes a story by unfolding its tragic – or, more broadly, literary – potential. But neither narrative nor historical turning points occur in empty spaces. Given the power of the peripety for plot-making, this volume inquires about its agency in the shaping of specific regions. Narration matters, for the constitution of events and regions alike; space matters, as a key element for the construction of plots and their dynamics. The Baltic Sea region, with its rich literary and cultural traditions and multiple overlapping layers of historical ruptures, is a particularly fruitful area for exploring transformation processes from a narratological point of view.

• Reihe: TRANSitions / Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies / Transdisziplinäre, transmediale und transnationale Studien zur Kultur
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN: 9783847117001
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2025
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Eckhard Schumacher
• Herausgegeben von: Oksana Alekseev, Riho Altnurme, Laura Assmuth, Simon Godart, Josephine Eckert, Ingvild Folkvord, Paula Hartmann, Cordelia Heß, Helge Jordheim, Natalia Iost, Sünne Juterczenka, Stephan Kessler, Kristoffer Neville, Martin Nõmm, Victoria Oertel, Andreas Ohme, Nina Pilz, Joachim Schiedermair, Eckhard Schumacher, Benjamin Schweitzer, Tim Senkbeil, Jan Süselbeck, Alexander Waszynski, Micha Werner, Martina Zagni, Cordelia Heß