Book part: Über die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Erzählens und die Inflation der Erzähltheorien – Versuch einer Orientierung zwischen den Disziplinen
Abstract
In various disciplines – not only in humanities such as European Ethnology, History, Philosophy and Literature, but also in Psychology, Medicine and even Economics – the interest in storytelling as a basic cultural skill has significantly increased during the last decades. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an almost inflationary rise of narrative theories. This paper will first of all discuss the present situation and relevance of storytelling in oral, literal and digital surroundings in general and then move on to outline the multidisciplinary interest in storytelling and the variety of theoretical models relating to it. The author’s main interest, however, focuses on the question of what this boom in storytelling and the inflation of narrative theory can be attributed to: Can it be understood simply as a temporary scholarly fashion, as a bandwagon jumped on by many disciplines, or as a reflection of the fundamental insight into the fact that our whole life is organised according to narrative structures? This would imply that we are no longer talking about narrative theory in a narrow sense but of a more fundamental approach to cultural theory.
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BibTex
Schneider, Ingo: Über die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Erzählens und die Inflation der Erzähltheorien – Versuch einer Orientierung zwischen den Disziplinen. In: Gächter, Yvonne;Ortner, Heike;Schwarz, Claudia;Wiesinger, Andreas: Erzählen – Reflexionen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung / Storytelling – Reflections in the Age of Digitalization. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2008, S. 56-66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19814.
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author = {Schneider, Ingo},
title = {Über die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Erzählens und die Inflation der Erzähltheorien – Versuch einer Orientierung zwischen den Disziplinen},
year = 2008,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19814}",
editor = {Gächter, Yvonne and Ortner, Heike and Schwarz, Claudia and Wiesinger, Andreas},
address = {Innsbruck},
booktitle = {Erzählen – Reflexionen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung / Storytelling – Reflections in the Age of Digitalization},
pages = {56--66},
publisher = {Innsbruck University Press},
}
author = {Schneider, Ingo},
title = {Über die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Erzählens und die Inflation der Erzähltheorien – Versuch einer Orientierung zwischen den Disziplinen},
year = 2008,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19814}",
editor = {Gächter, Yvonne and Ortner, Heike and Schwarz, Claudia and Wiesinger, Andreas},
address = {Innsbruck},
booktitle = {Erzählen – Reflexionen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung / Storytelling – Reflections in the Age of Digitalization},
pages = {56--66},
publisher = {Innsbruck University Press},
}
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