“…Frontiers of narrative…”

“…Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. The narratives weave together emotions, physical symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as well as the professional and personal challenges of providing hospice and palliative care. …”

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“…This phenomenon has received relatively scant attention, yet learning of an unknown condition is frequently a significant and bewildering revelation, subverting narrative expectations and customary categories"--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Friedrich Kittler's application of information theory to the humanities / Stephen Sale -- Irreducible vagueness: augmented worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio's Blur building / Ulrik Ekman -- Narratives as ways of worldmaking. Making events-making stories-making worlds: ways of worldmaking from a narratological point of view / Ansgar Nünning -- The making of fictional worlds: processes, features, and functions / Vera Nünning -- Literary worldmaking / Inger Østenstad -- Fictional narratives and their ways of spiritual worldmaking: (de-)constructing the realm of transcendence in City of God by way of metafiction and multiperspectivity / Hanna Bingel -- Narrating life: early modern accounts of the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689 / Elisabeth Waghall Nivre and Maren Eckart -- Seeing a world unmade, and making a world (out) of remains: the post-apocalyptic re-visions of W.S. …”

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