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Record Nr.

UNINA9910642292303321

Autore

Knaller Susanne

Titolo

Writing Facts : Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9783839462713

3839462711

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Collana

Lettre

Disciplina

909.08

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern

Facts (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Writing Facts -- THEORY AND HISTORY -- Facts in Modernity -- Writing as a Cultural Way of Fact-Making -- Facts -- WRITING SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND LAW -- Writing Social Facts -- Writing 'Volksgemeinschaft' into 'Fact' -- Manufacturing Legal Facts -- LITERATURE AND ARTS -- Towards a Poetics of Fact -- 'Writing Facts' and 19th-Century English Realist Fiction -- A 'Real' Novel? -- Rewriting Gender? -- The Loss of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene and Its Representations in Literature and the Arts (Late 20th and Early 21st Century) -- "One + One is one two. Two is one two" -- MEDIA AND WRITING PRACTICE -- An Iterative Poetics of Writing Facts -- Snapshot and Wage Table -- (Body) Positivity in Social Media -- 'Patchwriting' as Unintentional Fact Writing.

Sommario/riassunto

Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal choices, models of argumentation and narrative patterns. By considering »writing facts« and »writing facts«, the volume shows why and how »facts« are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as



of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives »fact« and its impact on modernity.