Baltic Peripeties - The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions

In Aristotle's Poetics, the well-constructed turning point, peripeteia, makes a story by unfolding its tragic - or, more broadly, literary - potential. But neither narrative nor historical turning points occur in empty spaces. Given the power of the peripety for plot-making, this volume inquires about its agency in the shaping of specific regions. Narration matters, for the constitution of events and regions alike; space matters, as a key element for the construction of plots and their dynamics. The Baltic Sea region, with its rich literary and cultural traditions and multiple overlapping layers of historical ruptures, is a particularly fruitful area for exploring transformation processes from a narratological point of view.

Product details

• Assisted by: Cordelia Heß (Editor), Eckhard Schumacher (Editor)
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.07.2025
• EAN: 9783847117001
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-1700-1
• No. of pages: 319
• Illustrations: with 12 figures
• Series: Transitions; TRANSitions / Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies / Transdisziplinäre, transmediale und transnationale Studien zur Kultu; TRANSitions 008
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies