TY - BOOK ID - 85714297 TI - Cultural ways of worldmaking : media and narratives AU - Nünning, Vera AU - Nünning, Ansgar. AU - Neumann, Birgit. PY - 2010 SN - 1282706640 9786612706646 3110227568 311022755X 3110486032 PB - Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Mass media and culture. KW - Language and culture. KW - Culture in literature. KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative. KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Creative ability in art KW - Creative ability in literature KW - Art KW - Imagination KW - Inspiration KW - Literature KW - Creative ability KW - Originality KW - Narrative discourse analysis KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - Culture and mass media KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Nelson Goodman. KW - Study of Culture. KW - Ways of Worldmaking. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85714297 AB - Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman's theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book "Ways of Worldmaking", this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman's philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations. ER -