Making sense in life and literature / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Glen Burns ; foreword by Wlad Godzich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich.

Contributor:

Godzich, Wlad.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 79.

Theory and history of literature

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Hermeneutics.

Criticism.

Literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 347 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1992]

Summary:

In this book, Gumbrecht describes an intellectual trajectory that can be traced from the interdisciplinary reorientation of the humanities in Germany between 1975 an 1990 to similar issues being discussed in North America today.

Contents:

Foreword: Figuring Out What Matters; or, The Microphysics of History / Wlad Godzich

Pt. I. Inverted Perspective. Introduction: How Much Sense Does Sense Making Make? Californian Retrospective to a German Question. 1. The Consequences of an Aesthetics of Reception: A Deferred Overture

Pt. II. Historical Representation and Life World. 2. Metahistorical Historiography? 3. The Role of Narration in Narrative Genres. 4. "Narrating the Past Just as if It Were Your Own Time" An Essay on the Anthropology of Historiography

Pt. III. Failures of Modernity. 5. A History of the Concept "Modern" 6. Laughter and Arbitrariness, Subjectivity and Seriousness: The Libro de buen amor, the Celestina, and the Style of Sense Production in Early Modern Times. 7. Who Were the Philosophes? 8. Outline of a Literary History of the French Revolution. 9. "Phoenix from the Ashes"; or, From Canon to Classic

Pt. IV. After Literature? 10. Pathologies in the System of Literature. 11. It's Just a Game: On the History of Media, Sport, and the Public.

Notes:

"Copyright 1992 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota."

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index.

ISBN:

0816619522

9780816619528

0816619549

9780816619542

OCLC:

22629699

Online:

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