- AutorIn
- Stefan Schubert
- Titel
- Introduction: Popularizing Instability (Chapter 1), Introducing Narrative Instability (Chapter 2)
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-776489
- Quellenangabe
- Narrative instability : destabilizing identities, realities, and textualities in contemporary American popular culture
Erscheinungsort: Heidelberg
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Titel Schriftenreihe: American Studies : A, Monograph series
Bandnummer Schriftenreihe: 305
Seiten: 9-54
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7923-0 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Abstract (EN)
- The following text is an excerpt from the book Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture, which was originally published in 2019 with Universitätsverlag Winter as part of the series American Studies – A Monograph Series. The book introduces the concept of ‘narrative instability’ in order to make visible a new trend in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend’s poetics, and to scrutinize its textual politics. It identifies those texts as narratively unstable that consciously frustrate and obfuscate the process of narrative understanding and comprehension, challenging their audiences to reconstruct what happened in a text’s plot, who its characters are, which of its diegetic worlds are real, or how narrative information is communicated in the first place. Despite—or rather, exactly because of—their confusing and destabilizing tendencies, such texts have attained mainstream commercial popularity in recent years across a variety of media, most prominently in films, video games, and television series. Focusing on three clusters of instability that form around identities, realities, and textualities, the book argues that narratively unstable texts encourage their audiences to engage with the narrative constructedness of their universes, that narrative instability embodies a new facet of popular culture, that it takes place and can only be understood transmedially, and that its textual politics particularly speak to white male middle-class Americans.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Realität, Identität, Massenmedien, Literatur, Film, Populärkultur, Narrativität, Dissertation, Auszug
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Identity, Reality, Narrativity, USA, 21st-Century Culture, Popular Culture, Film, Television, Video Games, Metatextuality, Genre, Transmediality, Gender, Masculinity
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 700
- 800
- Verlag
- Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg
- Den akademischen Grad verleihende / prüfende Institution
- Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-776489
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 27.01.2022
- Dokumenttyp
- Buchbeitrag
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0