Research Catalog

Title

The protoliterary : steps toward an anthropology of culture / K. Ludwig Pfeiffer.

Author

Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig (Karl Ludwig)

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2002.

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Details

Description

xxv, 402 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Writing science

Uniform Title

Writing science

Subject

• Theory (Philosophy)
• Aesthetics
• theory
• 17.83 literary aesthetics
• Literaire esthetiek
• Esthetica
• Theorie
• Cultuurkritiek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]395) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0804734631
• 9780804734639

LCCN

• 2002001114
• 9780804734639

OCLC

• ocm49029230
• 49029230
• SCSB-9477900

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library