Anecdotal Modernity
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Anecdotal Modernity

Making and Unmaking History

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Anecdotal Modernity

Making and Unmaking History

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9783110668490
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. TRUTH
  5. The Heathen in Heaven: Anecdote and Truth in Dante’s Commedia
  6. Anecdotal Ambiguity: Andrew Marvell
  7. A Hideous and Intolerable … Anecdote? Moby-Dick and Questions of Truth Seen from the Human and the Non-Human Side
  8. EVENT
  9. Heinrich von Kleist’s “Anecdote from the Last War”: W-hole, the Joke an Anecdote (Nearly) Made
  10. Individual Case, Example, Exception: The Range of the Anecdotal in Fontane
  11. Once is Nothing at All is Once: Traces of Eventfulness in Joyce and Beckett
  12. The Politics of Splitting: Gertrude Stein’s “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb”
  13. STORY
  14. Plot and Anecdote in Henry James and Julian Barnes
  15. The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency
  16. Accumulated Time, the Anecdote, and the Vertical Imagination
  17. RUMOR
  18. The Fun of Deep Gossip: Lord Cornbury as Queen in Drag
  19. An Anecdote Peddler from the Age of Goethe
  20. Anecdotal Manifestations of the Evangelical Here and Now: Four Conversions in Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton
  21. DETAIL
  22. The Cage of the Image and the Trace of the Snail: On the Language of Pictorial Detail
  23. Anecdote vs. History: Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk
  24. A Unique Universalism: Ben Shahn and the Rhetoric of Visual Anecdotes
  25. Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric
  26. CODA
  27. Philosophy and Anecdote: Hegel’s “Lehrer Löffler”
  28. “Fleurs de Paris”
  29. List of Contributors