Narrative Liminality and/in the Formation of American Modernities

叙事界限和//美国现代性的形成

• 批准号: 390190852
• 负责人: Dr. Sebastian Herrmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Scientific Networks
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/390190852?language=en
• 关键词: Narrative; Liminality; Formation; American; Modernities

This network proposes the notion of "narrative liminality" as a category for the study of US American culture. Taking its cues, on the one hand, from recent cultural-studies interests in the concept of symbolic forms and, on the other hand, from an overwhelming focus on the symbolic form of narrative in the wake of the "narrative turn" that has informed much recent American studies scholarship, the network asks for the cultural processes and negotiations that take place at the fringes and outside of the narrative symbolic form. It proposes to focus on the cultural dynamics of what we call "narrative liminality"--a property of discourses and practices that are not yet or not anymore (only) narrative; of discourses and practices whose symbolic forms entail some extent of narrativity or that are culturalized as archives or reservoirs for potential narratives. Such narrative liminality, we suggest, marks the formal dynamics and cultural work of forms such as the database, play, or ritual. Proceeding from the hypothesis that narrative liminality gains particular cultural currency in contexts of sociocultural transformation, dynamization, and self-reflection, the network aims to explore how narrative liminality has served as a key idiom in the negotiation of American modernities.

这个网络提出了“叙事阈限”的概念，作为美国文化研究的一个范畴。它的线索，一方面，从最近的文化研究的兴趣，在象征形式的概念，另一方面，从压倒性的关注后，“叙事转向”，告知最近的美国研究奖学金的叙事的象征形式，该网络要求的文化过程和谈判发生在边缘和外部的叙事象征形式。它建议把重点放在我们所说的“叙事阈限”的文化动力学--一种尚未或不再（仅仅）叙事的话语和实践的属性;其象征形式需要某种程度的叙事性或被文化化为潜在叙事的档案或水库的话语和实践。我们认为，这种叙事的阈限性标志着数据库、游戏或仪式等形式的正式动态和文化工作。从叙事阈限在社会文化转型、动态化和自我反思的语境中获得特定文化货币的假设出发，该网络旨在探讨叙事阈限如何成为美国现代性谈判中的关键习语。

项目成果

Narrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld

美国研究中的叙事与游戏：电子游戏《心灵杀手》和电视剧《西部世界》中的嬉戏文本性

• DOI: 10.1515/9783110659405-008
• 期刊: Playing the Field
• 作者: Schubert;Stefan
• 通讯作者: Stefan

Dystopia in the Skies: Negotiating Justice and Morality on Screen in the Video Game BioShock Infinite

天空中的反乌托邦：电子游戏《生化奇兵：无限》中屏幕上正义与道德的谈判

• DOI: 10.4000/ejas.14089
• 期刊: European journal of American studies
• 影响因子: 0.1
• 作者: Schubert;Stefan
• 通讯作者: Stefan

Veep, Invective Spectacle, and the Figure of the Comedic Antiheroine

《副总统》、谩骂场面和喜剧反女主角的形象

• DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2019-0014
• 期刊: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• 作者: Kanzler;Katja.
• 通讯作者: Katja.

‚This game is not meant for you‘: Westworld an der Schnittstelle von Narrativ und Spiel

“这个游戏不适合你”：叙事与游戏界面的《西部世界》

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-21815-7_5
• 作者: Kanzler;Katja.
• 通讯作者: Katja.

Post-truth = Post-narrative?

后真相=后叙述？

• DOI: 10.4324/9781315163932-25
• 期刊: The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies
• 作者: Herrmann;Sebastian M.
• 通讯作者: Sebastian M.