The discipline of “Narratology” studies the logic, structures, practices, and function of narration in media and culture. For more information, check out the digital Living Handbook of Narratology from the @uni-hamburg.de: www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.html

Narrative is relevant across disciplines, though its centrality has been emphasized most strongly in cultural studies and humanities. The communication of knowledge and information always constitutes a narrative, whether actively or passively constructed.

A narrative is an account (written or spoken, or otherwise mediated) of events, telling what took place and how. It constructs a particular way of understanding and linking events.

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For example, after a storm blew through northern Germany last evening, the ground was covered in leaves and debris and looked quite different than it had an hour before.
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A classic plot line in a narrative starts with a status quo that is then overturned by a peripety, such that the former status quo is no longer accessible.

Not to be confused with “periphery,” peripety can be understand in an interdisciplinary context as a reversal, change, turning point, or juncture in any kind of narrative.

Originally coined by Aristotle in Poetics, the “peripeteia” is a reversal of circumstances, a change from one state to its opposite. In the context of tragedy, this is a turning point in a plot that is still always subject to the probable or necessary course of action.

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We especially thank our partner universities, NTNU Trondheim and University of Tartu, for their commitment and continued cooperation, as well as the rector and faculty of our university, University of Greifswald.

The excellent projects and the commitment of our PhD researchers form the basis of this success and will be extended with a 3rd cohort (starting Spring 2027), as well as postdoctoral funding. We look forward to future projects and to continuing our current work.

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