Travelling Concepts: New Fictionality Studies

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Cover illustration: Apsaras in Khajuraho/India. Courtesy of Monika Fludernik

ISSN 0935-4093

ISBN 978-3-631-80599-2 (Print)

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DOI 10.3726/b17154

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About the author

The Editors
Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has worked in the areas of narratology, postcolonial literary theory, law and literature studies and the eighteenth century. Her two most recent publications are Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy and Narrative Factuality.

Henrik Skov Nielsen is a professor in narrative theory and fictionality studies at Aarhus University. His research has attempted to contribute to conversations on three areas of narrative theory: first person narration, unnatural narratology, and fictionality. He is one of the co-editors of Narratology and Ideology. He currently heads the Narrative Research Lab, Aarhus University, Denmark and Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

About the book

Monika Fludernik / Henrik Skov Nielsen (eds.)

Travelling Concepts: New Fictionality Studies

The collection of essays in the book re-examines the much discussed fact-fiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality. It provides a forum for ongoing work on fictionality from France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden and introduces this work to the Anglophone world. Although the focus of this collection is on fictionality studies, the foregrounded role of the factual and its decisive impact on the framing and constitution of the fictional are a recurring issue in the essays. In the current geo-political moment where the trust in truth, knowledge and science is under pressure, and where social media offer unlimited access to story-sharing, this book attempting to answer the question of fictionality is necessary.

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List of Contributors

Monika Fludernik and Henrik Skov Nielsen

Travelling Concepts: New Fictionality Studies. An Introduction

Frank Zipfel (Mainz)

Invention and Fictionality

Johannes Franzen (Bonn)

Contested Inventions: Fictionality and Ethics

Françoise Lavocat (Paris)

The Frontiers between Fact and Fiction in the Light of Tridimensional Comparatism

Eva von Contzen and Stefan Tilg (Freiburg)

Fictionality before Fictionality? Historicizing a Modern Concept

Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen

Inventing History: Fictionality in the Historical Novel in Britain and Denmark

Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe (Göttingen)

Authors, Fictional Narrators, and Literary Appreciation

Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus)

Factuality and Fictionality in ʻFake Newsʼ

Contributors

List of Contributors

Eva von Contzen, Englisches Seminar, University of Freiburg, Rempartstraße 15, 79085 Freiburg; Germany; eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, English Department, Rempartstrasse 15, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany, sekretariat.fludernik@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Johannes Franzen. Graduiertenkolleg ‘Gegenwart/Literatur’, Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn., jfranzen@uni-bonn.de

Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen, Aarhus University, Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Nordisk Sprog og Litteratur, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, building 1485, 424, 8000 Aarhus C, Danmark, norsgjerlevsen@cc.au.dk

Henrik Skov Nielsen, Aarhus University, Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Nordisk Sprog og Litteratur, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, building 1485, 318, 8000 Aarhus C, Danmark, norhn@cc.au.dk