Müller-Funk The Architecture of Modern Culture

Towards a Narrative Cultural Theory
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028305-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 289 Seiten

Reihe: Culture & Conflict

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Müller-Funk, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Part 1. Culture and its Narratives;13
2.1;Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative: A Transdisciplinary Discourse Report;15
2.2;The Hidden Narratives: Latency, Repression, Common Sense;32
2.3;On the Narratology of Cultural and Collective Memory;54
2.4;Romanticism and Nationalism: The Heroic Narrative - Hermann and the Battle for Germany;70
2.5;Polyphem’s Children: (Post-) Colonial Aspects in Western Modernity and Literary Modernism;88
2.6;Murder and Monotheism: A Detective Story in Close Reading;109
3;Part 2. Space, Time and the Global;121
3.1;Space and Borders: Simmel, Waldenfels, Musil;123
3.2;Time in Modern Cultural Analysis;140
3.3;Walter Benjamin and the Translational Turn;147
3.4;The Arts and the Split of Time: On Kawara;159
4;Part 3. The Heritage of Classical Modernism: Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka;173
4.1;The Disappearing of Ruins: Thomas Glavinic’s The Work of the Night and an Imaginary Symposium with Benjamin, Simmel, Freud and Foucault;175
4.2;Fear in Culture: Hermann Broch’s Massenwahntheorie;185
4.3;Mass Hysteria and the Physics of the Crowd: Canetti and Broch -A Theoretical Divorce;199
4.4;Musil’s Version of Round Dance in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften;216
4.5;From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement: The Austrian Example;223
4.6;The Broken Mirror: The Construction of America in Lenau;237
4.7;Images of America, Made in Austria: After Lenau - Franz Kafka;251
4.8;Austrian Literature in a Trans-cultural Context;260
5;Bibliography and References;276
6;Original place of publication of single chapters;288

Über Autor(innen)

Müller-Funk, Wolfgang
Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universität Wien, Austria.

Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universität Wien, Österreich.

Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universität Wien, Österreich.