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The protoliterary : steps toward an anthropology of culture

Author: Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2002.
Series: Writing science.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer
ISBN: 0804734631 9780804734639
OCLC Number: 49029230
Description: xxv, 402 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface: Eight Assumptions --
Introduction: Speculative Sketches--Critical Theory, Exegesis, Interpretation --
Dimensions: Theoretical and Illustrative --
First Exemplifications: The Novel and the Self-Therapy of the Medium --
Wilhelm Meister: The Cultural Potentials and Failures of Theatricality --
Joseph Andrews and Painting --
The Bride of Lammermoor, Opera, and Madame Bovary --
The Maltese Falcon: The Novel and the Film --
Provisional Consequences --
Theory: Trends, Past and Present --
The Eighteenth Century: G. C. Lichtenberg and Media Analysis versus the Literary System --
The Nineteenth Century: Systems, Play, and the Anthropological Return of Experience --
Systems Theory: Implications, Historical and Otherwise --
Games and Play --
Experience and Play Again --
Nietzsche --
Images of Evolution --
The Shrinkage of Fact and the Expansion of Performative Discourse --
The Poietic-Poetic Dilemma: "Drama," "Audience," Representation --
Tragedy and the Production of Social Realities --
The Play as a Model Discourse: Oedipus, Knowledge, and Power --
Spectacular Dynamics: Paradigms of Anthropological Import --
Appearances: Shadowy Substances and Substantial Shadows --
Between Sociology and Anthropology: Trends, Past and Present --
Ambivalences of Western Spectacles --
Japanese Theater and the West: A Quasi-Theoretical Outline --
Spectacular Theater, Sumo, and the Labors of "Literature --
Fragments of an Absent World Theater: "Baroque" and the Implicit Denial of Segment Culture --
Other Histories, and Their Theory.
Series Title: Writing science.
Responsibility: K. Ludwig Pfeiffer.
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