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Johannes Franzen: Indiskrete Fiktionen. Theorie und Praxis des Schlüsselromans 1960–2016. Göttingen 2018. 456 S. EUR 39,90. ISBN: 978-3-8353-3217-1

Report on the Conference „Graphic Realities: Comics as Documentary, History, and Journalism“, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen / International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), February 22-23, 2018

Der Comic-Zeichner Reinhard Kleist im Interview

This paper explores how the reflexivity offered by graphic narratives makes them ideally suited to questioning how enshrined historical narratives can (and should) be troubled. In fact, many graphic narratives that engage with historical atrocities insist that the reader question how the past is framed.…

This article examines the narrative function of documents in graphic illness memoirs and asks how they can be used to secure an authenticity effect. Drawing examples from several graphic illness memoirs that openly challenge notions of documentary as firmly grounded in referential reality and the transparent…

Elizabeth Alsop: Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction. Columbus, OH 2019

Einleitung der Gastherausgeber/in des Themenhefts

It is almost a trope in contemporary discussions on the Anthropocene to call for new narratives that are able to convey the scale of the ecological crisis. When does a narrative become new, however? In this article, I build on Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck’s theory of narrative in culture to develop a…

In Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation and its eponymous 2018 film adaptation directed by Alex Garland, traditional narrative hierarchies and binaries disintegrate, both in thematic material and at the syntactic and (in the film score) musical levels. Words are written with fungus, a bear screams with…