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The Architecture of Modern Culture : Towards a Narrative Cultural Theory / Wolfgang Müller-Funk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture & Conflict ; 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110282887
  • 9783110283051
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Part 1. Culture and its Narratives -- Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative -- The Hidden Narratives -- On the Narratology of Cultural and Collective Memory -- Romanticism and Nationalism -- Polyphem’s Children -- Murder and Monotheism -- Part 2. Space, Time and the Global -- Space and Borders -- Time in Modern Cultural Analysis -- Walter Benjamin and the Translational Turn -- The Arts and the Split of Time -- Part 3. The Heritage of Classical Modernism: Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka -- The Disappearing of Ruins -- Fear in Culture -- Mass Hysteria and the Physics of the Crowd -- Musil’s Version of Round Dance in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement -- The Broken Mirror -- Images of America, Made in Austria -- Austrian Literature in a Trans-cultural Context -- Bibliography and References -- Original place of publication of single chapters
Summary: These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time and globalization discussing, for example, Walter Benjamin and 9/11.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Part 1. Culture and its Narratives -- Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative -- The Hidden Narratives -- On the Narratology of Cultural and Collective Memory -- Romanticism and Nationalism -- Polyphem’s Children -- Murder and Monotheism -- Part 2. Space, Time and the Global -- Space and Borders -- Time in Modern Cultural Analysis -- Walter Benjamin and the Translational Turn -- The Arts and the Split of Time -- Part 3. The Heritage of Classical Modernism: Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka -- The Disappearing of Ruins -- Fear in Culture -- Mass Hysteria and the Physics of the Crowd -- Musil’s Version of Round Dance in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement -- The Broken Mirror -- Images of America, Made in Austria -- Austrian Literature in a Trans-cultural Context -- Bibliography and References -- Original place of publication of single chapters

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These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time and globalization discussing, for example, Walter Benjamin and 9/11.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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