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Dos Passos instead of Goethe! : Some observations on how the history of narratology is and ought to be conceptualized

Taking as starting point some collective volumes since the year 2000 which aspire to provide new views on narratology, this essay discusses the problem of how to conceive the history of narratology in a way that is more enlightening than the linear narrative used so far to tell this story. It lists some…
Bergische Universität Wuppertal: Wuppertal : Univ.
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Maradona. Der Sportheld als Patchworkidentität

This essay examines Diego Armando Maradona as a paradigmatic figure of popular heroism. Heroes of popular culture hold a derivative status in relation to other heroic types, as they continually recombine their features in ever-changing contexts. Building on and extending narratological and cultural-theoretical…
Bergische Universität Wuppertal: Wuppertal : Univ.
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Selfies und Stories. : Authentizität und Banalität des narrativen Selbst in Social Media

The paper discusses autobiographical representations and constructions of the self in two prominent recent devices of social media, namely Selfies and Stories. Selfies taken during the users‘ vacations strive to convey the impression of informal and individual authenticity by applying, paradoxically,…
Bergische Universität Wuppertal: Wuppertal : Univ.