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Anecdotal Modernity : Making and Unmaking History / ed. by Florian Sedlmeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Birte Wege, James Dorson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 68Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XII, 306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110629538
  • 9783110665734
  • 9783110668490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9112 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • PE25 .A47 v.68
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- TRUTH -- The Heathen in Heaven: Anecdote and Truth in Dante’s Commedia -- Anecdotal Ambiguity: Andrew Marvell -- A Hideous and Intolerable … Anecdote? Moby-Dick and Questions of Truth Seen from the Human and the Non-Human Side -- EVENT -- Heinrich von Kleist’s “Anecdote from the Last War”: W-hole, the Joke an Anecdote (Nearly) Made -- Individual Case, Example, Exception: The Range of the Anecdotal in Fontane -- Once is Nothing at All is Once: Traces of Eventfulness in Joyce and Beckett -- The Politics of Splitting: Gertrude Stein’s “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb” -- STORY -- Plot and Anecdote in Henry James and Julian Barnes -- The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency -- Accumulated Time, the Anecdote, and the Vertical Imagination -- RUMOR -- The Fun of Deep Gossip: Lord Cornbury as Queen in Drag -- An Anecdote Peddler from the Age of Goethe -- Anecdotal Manifestations of the Evangelical Here and Now: Four Conversions in Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton -- DETAIL -- The Cage of the Image and the Trace of the Snail: On the Language of Pictorial Detail -- Anecdote vs. History: Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk -- A Unique Universalism: Ben Shahn and the Rhetoric of Visual Anecdotes -- Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric -- CODA -- Philosophy and Anecdote: Hegel’s “Lehrer Löffler” -- “Fleurs de Paris” -- List of Contributors
Summary: Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early modern to the present.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- TRUTH -- The Heathen in Heaven: Anecdote and Truth in Dante’s Commedia -- Anecdotal Ambiguity: Andrew Marvell -- A Hideous and Intolerable … Anecdote? Moby-Dick and Questions of Truth Seen from the Human and the Non-Human Side -- EVENT -- Heinrich von Kleist’s “Anecdote from the Last War”: W-hole, the Joke an Anecdote (Nearly) Made -- Individual Case, Example, Exception: The Range of the Anecdotal in Fontane -- Once is Nothing at All is Once: Traces of Eventfulness in Joyce and Beckett -- The Politics of Splitting: Gertrude Stein’s “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb” -- STORY -- Plot and Anecdote in Henry James and Julian Barnes -- The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency -- Accumulated Time, the Anecdote, and the Vertical Imagination -- RUMOR -- The Fun of Deep Gossip: Lord Cornbury as Queen in Drag -- An Anecdote Peddler from the Age of Goethe -- Anecdotal Manifestations of the Evangelical Here and Now: Four Conversions in Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton -- DETAIL -- The Cage of the Image and the Trace of the Snail: On the Language of Pictorial Detail -- Anecdote vs. History: Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk -- A Unique Universalism: Ben Shahn and the Rhetoric of Visual Anecdotes -- Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric -- CODA -- Philosophy and Anecdote: Hegel’s “Lehrer Löffler” -- “Fleurs de Paris” -- List of Contributors

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Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early modern to the present.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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