Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9783110227550
ISBN-13 : 311022755X
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Book Synopsis Cultural Ways of Worldmaking by : Vera Nünning

Download or read book Cultural Ways of Worldmaking written by Vera Nünning and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.


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