1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460216103321

Titolo

Unreliable narration and trustworthiness : intermedial and interdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Vera Nünning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-055309-0

3-11-040826-0

3-11-040841-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Collana

Narratologia. Contributions to narrative theory ; ; 44

Classificazione

EC 4520

Disciplina

808/.036

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Reliability

Truthfulness and falsehood

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Vera Nünning / Conceptualising (un)reliable narration and (un)trustworthiness -- Theoretical issues and new directions. Uri Margolin / Theorising narrative (un)reliability: a tentative roadmap; Liesbeth Korthals Altes / What about the default, or interpretive diversity? : some reflections on narrative (un)reliability; Vera Nünning / Reconceptualising fictional (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness from a multidisciplinary perspective: categories, typology and functions; Bo Pettersson / Kinds of unreliability in fiction: narratorial, focal, expositional and combined; Robert Vogt / Combining possible-worlds theory and cognitive theory: towards an explanatory model for ironic-unreliable narration, ironic-unreliable focalization, ambiguous-unreliable and alterated-unreliable narration in literary fiction; Gunther Martens / Unreliability in non-fiction: the case of the unreliable addressee -- Transgeneric and intermedial approaches. Peter Hühn / Unreliability in lyric poetry; Ansgar Nünning & Christine Schwanecke / The performative power of unreliable narration and focalisation in



drama and theatre: conceptualising the specificity of dramatic unreliability; Matthias Brütsch / Irony, retroactivity, and ambiguity: three kinds of "unreliable narration" in literature and film; Markus Kuhn / (Un)reliability in fictional and factual audiovisual narratives on YouTube; Christoph Bietz / Tracing televised "truth": reality effect and unreliable narration in TV news -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on (un)reliability. Beatrice Dernbach / (Un)reliable narration in journalism: the fine line between fact and fiction; Andreas Elter; Unreliable narratives in the US elections: how much reliability can a campaign take?; Andreas von Arnauld & Stefan Martini / Unreliable narration in law courts; Stephan Jaeger / Unreliable narration in historical studies; Jarmila Mildorf / Unreliability in patient narratives: from clinical assessment to narrative practice; Brigitte Boothe & Dragica Stojkovic / Communicating dreams: on the struggle for reliable dream reporting and the unreliability of dream reports.

Sommario/riassunto

"Initiating a transgeneric, intermedial and interdisciplinary approach to narrative unreliability, this volume is meant to enrich, modify and refine our understanding of (un)reliable narration by taking into account not only different genres and media, but also research in a variety of disciplines. The three sections of the volume comprise articles on the theory of unreliable narration, transgeneric and intermedial issues as well as studies from areas such as journalism, politics, law and medicine" --



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783540103321

Autore

Pelling Mark <1967->

Titolo

The vulnerability  of cities : natural disasters and social resilience / / Mark Pelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-55146-8

1-84977-337-8

1-280-47563-3

9786610475636

1-136-55147-6

600-00-0240-8

1-4175-4265-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

307.76/09172/4

Soggetti

Urban ecology (Sociology) - Developing countries

Natural disasters - Developing countries

Disaster relief - Developing countries

Urbanization - Social aspects - Developing countries

Sustainable development - Developing countries

Urban policy - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sect. I. Cities and Environmental Risk -- 1. Tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability -- 2. Cities as Sites for Disaster -- 3. Social Vulnerability in the City -- 4. Urban Governance and Disaster -- Sect. II. The Case Studies -- 5. Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados -- 6. Post-socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, Guyana -- 7. Patrimonial Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic -- Sect. III. Towards Safer Cities -- 8. Action for Safer Cities.

Sommario/riassunto

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the



vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and communities withstand disaster more effectively than others. Mark Pelling takes a fresh look at the literature on disasters and urbanization in light of recent catastrophes. He presents three detailed st