The architecture of modern culture : towards a narrative cultural theory / Wolfgang Müller-Funk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller-Funk, Wolfgang.

Series:

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 3.

Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

pt. 1. Culture and its narratives

pt. 2. Space, time and the global

pt. 3. The heritage of classical modernism : Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110283051

3110283050

OCLC:

826480218