eprintid: 18954
rev_number: 27
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dir: disk0/00/01/89/54
datestamp: 2015-06-26 11:37:56
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type: article
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creators_name: Harth, Dietrich
title: The thought-provoking power of narration
subjects: ddc-800
divisions: i-90100
abstract: After a time of theoretical condemnation common sense as well as academic curiosity have rediscovered again the all-permeating powers of narration. Narrativity and culture are, this is a conviction grounding this essay, closely interwoven. But from this doesn't follow that narration has to be seen as a guardian of general order. On the contrary, if we contemplate the appearance of narratives in everyday life and in literature we may detect differences but also affinities in subverting common beliefs. Yet, literary
narrations tend to work in their own way through what in philosophical discourse is reduced to conceptualizing.
The topics dealt with in this essay include Schiller's substantiation of aesthetic awareness and Goethe's narrative response; the great masternarratives of the 20th century: Proust, Joyce and Beckett; and the question, what an advanced art of narration can contribute to an experience which is yearning to break open the iron cage of traditions in thought as well as in literary invention.
date: 2011
publisher: Firenze Univ. Pr.
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00018954
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-9
schriftenreihe_order: 118
ppn_swb: 1504865308
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-189547
language: eng
bibsort: HARTHDIETRTHETHOUGHT2011
full_text_status: public
publication: IRIS : European journal of Philosophy and Public Debate
volume: 3
place_of_pub: Firenze
pagerange: 89-107
issn: 2036-3257
citation:   Harth, Dietrich  (2011) The thought-provoking power of narration.  IRIS : European journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, 3.  pp. 89-107.  ISSN 2036-3257     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18954/1/Harth_The_thought-provoking_power_of_narration.pdf