Baltic Peripeties: The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions (TRANSitions) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3847117009 ISBN 13: 9783847117001

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Cordelia Heß is Professor of Medieval History at the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.

Eckhard Schumacher is professor of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Greifswald. He is director of the Wolfgang Koeppen Archive and speaker of the Int. Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties”.

Benjamin Schweitzer ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Fennistik und Skandinavistik der Universität Greifswald.

Edition details

• Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847117009
• ISBN 13: 9783847117001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319
• Editor: Schumacher Prof. Dr. Eckhard, Heß Prof. Dr. Cordelia