Between Ethics and Epistemology / MARTELLA, VINCENZO -- "If the Stranger hadn't been there! ... But he was!" Causal, Virtual and Evaluative Dimensions of Turning Points in Alternate Histories, Science-Fiction Stories and Multiverse Narratives / VOGT, ROBERT -- II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual Media -- On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels / AMEEL, LIEVEN -- Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History / HANENBERG, PETER -- (Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village / GONÇALVES, DIANA -- Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature / RETTBERG, ANNA -- This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives / GIL, ISABEL CAPELOA -- III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing -- Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction / FAISST, JULIA -- Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier's and Hitchcock's Rebecca / FERREIRA, TERESA -- Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen's Match Point / MÄKELÄ, HANNA -- Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa's My Father's Wives / ANTZ, ELISA -- A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen's Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot's Progress / RAVIZZA, ELEONORA -- Becoming the 'Other': Metamorphosis and 'Turning Points' in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada / KARLSSON HAMMARFELT, LINDA -- IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History -- Lay Pamphlets in the Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre? / LUNDSTRÖM, KERSTIN -- The King is Dead, Long Live ... the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing - Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) / WÅGHÄLL NIVRE, ELISABETH -- Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre / DOS SANTOS LOPES, MARÍLIA -- Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse / BONADEI, ROSSANA -- Bridget Jones's Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction / PYRHÖNEN, HETA -- New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature / KUSCHE, SABRINA -- V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory -- On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies / PETTERSSON, BO -- Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis / LOCATELLI, ANGELA -- The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal / EGERER, CLAUDIA -- Notes on Contributors |