The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change

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The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change is written by Corinna Assmann and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3823303899 (ISBN 10) and 9783823303893 (ISBN 13).

Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges in the 21st century. The present volume aims to actualize and further substantiate the case for literature and narrative, taking inspiration from Vera Nünning's eminent scholarship over the past decades. Engaging with her formative interdisciplinary work, the volume seeks to explore potentials of change through the transformative power of literature and narrative - to be harnessed by individuals and groups as agents of positive change in today's world. The book is located at the intersection of cognitive and cultural narratology and is concerned with the way literature affects individuals, how it works at an intersubjective level, enabling communication and community, and how it furthers social and cultural change.