TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pfeiffer,Karl Ludwig
TI  - The protoliterary: steps toward an anthropology of culture 
T2  - Writing science
SN  - 0804734631
AV  - B842. P47 2002
U1  - 111.85 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Theory (Philosophy)
KW  - Aesthetics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-395) and index; Preface: Eight Assumptions --; Introduction: Speculative Sketches - Critical Theory, Exegesis, Interpretation --; 1; 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 --; 2; 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 --; 3; 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 --; 4; Appearances: Shadowy Substances and Substantial Shadows --; 5; 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 --; 6; Fragments of an Absent World Theater: "Baroque" and the Implicit Denial of Segment Culture --; Other Histories, and Their Theory --; Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, John Dryden: Alternative Episodes in Western Cultural History --; The "Rise" of Opera: A Logical Coincidence in Media Development --; The Operative Principle Extended, or: From Dewey via Hegel to Adorno --; 7; First Steps - Theoretical and Practical --; Outlines and Perspectives --; More Examples: A Tennis Novel and Soccer Poetry --; 8; Symptoms: Exposed Flanks in Older Cultural Theories --; A Brutal Prelude and Its Implications --; Schiller: Conceptual Frictions and Cultural Discontinuities --; Marcuse: Aesthetics, Politics, and Atavisms --; Systems Theory against Itself --; Dance in Literature: The Poetry of the Body? --; 9; Ecstasy, Violence, "Literature": Early Western Cultures and Codes of Vitality --; Situations and Context Switches: Greek Models --; Rome: Culture Complex, the Imaginary, and Sports Reporting --; Sequels: More of the Same, but More Complicated --; 10; The Persistence of the Obsolete --; Byron and the Romantic Denial of Romantic Maximations --; Literary Skating; Or, Culture as Compromise --; Nietzsche (Once More) and the Fusion of Plausibility and Nonsense --; Notes --; Index
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