Dorothee Birke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothee Birke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothee |
| FAMILY NAME | Birke |
| SIGNATURE | BIRKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-3740-7041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diachronic perspectives on digital reading culture
This article uses a diachronic approach to examine how on social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, readers of fiction discuss and also stage strong affects connected with their reading of ‘books that made me cry’. While this trend may seem to be generated wholly by the affordances of digital media, it will be examined in what interesting ways it also connects with the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental reading. Considering three d…
Mimesis of Remembering
Literary narratives not only often thematize memory as a topic; they also directly represent or stage concrete processes of remembering by way of various narrative techniques. This article offers a systematic approach to these techniques which is informed both by narratology and interdisciplinary memory studies. Specifically, the contribution offers a toolbox for the analysis of what we refer to as the ›mimesis of remembering‹: through a variety …
Social Reading? On the Rise of a "Bookish" Reading Culture Online
While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture is "done" on the internet and analyzes the values attached to the media practices involved. In particular, in millennial book culture, social aspects of reading are often emphasi…
The World Is Not Enough
The list plays a key role in the development of the eighteenth-century novel as a self-consciously innovative form. In this essay I examine the function of enumerations in two key texts, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, where they not only produce a heightened sense of credibility and plausibility, but also import contemporary systems of thought and stage interiority and negotiate the status of the novel in relation to ot…
Challenging the Divide? Stephen King and the Problem of ‘Popular Culture’
Realisms in Contemporary Culture
‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisu…
Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing
Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuali…
Challenging the Divide? Stephen King and the Problem of ‘Popular Culture’
Social Reading? On the Rise of a "Bookish" Reading Culture Online
While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture is "done" on the internet and analyzes the values attached to the media practices involved. In particular, in millennial book culture, social aspects of reading are often emphasi…
Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing
Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuali…
Realisms in Contemporary Culture
‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisu…
Challenging the Divide? Stephen King and the Problem of ‘Popular Culture’
The World Is Not Enough
The list plays a key role in the development of the eighteenth-century novel as a self-consciously innovative form. In this essay I examine the function of enumerations in two key texts, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, where they not only produce a heightened sense of credibility and plausibility, but also import contemporary systems of thought and stage interiority and negotiate the status of the novel in relation to ot…
Social Reading? On the Rise of a "Bookish" Reading Culture Online
While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture is "done" on the internet and analyzes the values attached to the media practices involved. In particular, in millennial book culture, social aspects of reading are often emphasi…
Mimesis of Remembering
Literary narratives not only often thematize memory as a topic; they also directly represent or stage concrete processes of remembering by way of various narrative techniques. This article offers a systematic approach to these techniques which is informed both by narratology and interdisciplinary memory studies. Specifically, the contribution offers a toolbox for the analysis of what we refer to as the ›mimesis of remembering‹: through a variety …
Diachronic perspectives on digital reading culture
This article uses a diachronic approach to examine how on social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, readers of fiction discuss and also stage strong affects connected with their reading of ‘books that made me cry’. While this trend may seem to be generated wholly by the affordances of digital media, it will be examined in what interesting ways it also connects with the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental reading. Considering three d…
Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)