The architecture of modern culture : towards a narrative cultural theory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müller-Funk, Wolfgang
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Series:Culture & conflict ; Bd. 3.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Part 1. Culture and its Narratives; Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative: A Transdisciplinary Discourse Report; The Hidden Narratives: Latency, Repression, Common Sense; On the Narratology of Cultural and Collective Memory; Romanticism and Nationalism: The Heroic Narrative
  • Hermann and the Battle for Germany; Polyphem's Children: (Post-) Colonial Aspects in Western Modernity and Literary Modernism; Murder and Monotheism: A Detective Story in Close Reading; Part 2. Space, Time and the Global; Space and Borders: Simmel, Waldenfels, Musil; Time in Modern Cultural Analysis
  • Walter Benjamin and the Translational TurnThe Arts and the Split of Time: On Kawara; Part 3. The Heritage of Classical Modernism: Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka; The Disappearing of Ruins: Thomas Glavinic's The Work of the Night and an Imaginary Symposium with Benjamin, Simmel, Freud and Foucault; Fear in Culture: Hermann Broch's Massenwahntheorie; Mass Hysteria and the Physics of the Crowd: Canetti and Broch -A Theoretical Divorce; Musil's Version of Round Dance in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement: The Austrian Example
  • The Broken Mirror: The Construction of America in LenauImages of America, Made in Austria: After Lenau
  • Franz Kafka; Austrian Literature in a Trans-cultural Context; Bibliography and References; Original place of publication of single chapters