Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Anecdotal Modernity

Making and Unmaking History

Edited by: James Dorson , Florian Sedlmeier , MaryAnn Snyder-Körber and Birte Wege

Volume 68 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668490

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

J. Dorson, FU Berlin; F. Sedlmeier, FU Berlin, M. Snyder-Körber, Julius-Maximilians-Univerity, Würzburg; B. Wege, FU Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Florian Sedlmeier and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TRUTH
The Heathen in Heaven: Anecdote and Truth in Dante’s Commedia Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Anecdotal Ambiguity: Andrew Marvell Verena Olejniczak Lobsien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
A Hideous and Intolerable … Anecdote? Moby-Dick and Questions of Truth Seen from the Human and the Non-Human Side Helmbrecht Breinig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
EVENT
Heinrich von Kleist’s “Anecdote from the Last War”: W-hole, the Joke an Anecdote (Nearly) Made Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Bettine Menke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Individual Case, Example, Exception: The Range of the Anecdotal in Fontane Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Inka Mülder-Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Once is Nothing at All is Once: Traces of Eventfulness in Joyce and Beckett Andreas Mahler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Politics of Splitting: Gertrude Stein’s “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb” Gabriele Schwab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
STORY
Plot and Anecdote in Henry James and Julian Barnes Heinz Ickstadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency Thomas Claviez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Accumulated Time, the Anecdote, and the Vertical Imagination Winfried Siemerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
RUMOR
The Fun of Deep Gossip: Lord Cornbury as Queen in Drag Ralph J. Poole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
An Anecdote Peddler from the Age of Goethe Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Hendrik Birus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Anecdotal Manifestations of the Evangelical Here and Now: Four Conversions in Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton Frank Kelleter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
DETAIL
The Cage of the Image and the Trace of the Snail: On the Language of Pictorial Detail Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Friedrich Teja Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Anecdote vs. History: Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor Susanne von Falkenhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
A Unique Universalism: Ben Shahn and the Rhetoric of Visual Anecdotes Christof Decker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric Andrew S. Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
CODA
Philosophy and Anecdote: Hegel’s “Lehrer Löffler” Anselm Haverkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
“Fleurs de Paris” Barbara Vinken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers, students.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Anecdote; historiography; modernity; new historicism

eBook

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668490

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110629538