Poetics and Politics: Net Structures and Agencies in Early Modern Drama

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Poetics and Politics

Net Structures and Agencies in Early Modern Drama

Edited by: Toni Bernhart , Jaša Drnovsek , Sven Thorsten Kilian , Joachim Küpper and Jan Mosch
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536690

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Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history.

Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and the history of literature and concepts.

Within this frame, aspects of major interest are the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within the artefacts or genres they belong to, as well as strategies of functionalization in the context of a given part of the cultural net.

Contributions cover a broad range of topics, including poetics of Early Modern Drama; political, institutional and social practices; history of themes and motifs (Stoffgeschichte); history of genres/cross-fertilization between genres; textual traditions and distribution of texts; questions of originality and authorship; theories of circulation and net structures in Drama Studies.

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Toni Bernhart, Jaša Drnovšek, Sven Thorsten Kilian, Joachim Küpper und Jan Mosch, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	v
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
‘National Literatures’? Joachim Küpper Open Access Download PDF	19
American Presidential Candidates at the Court of Charles V: How Political Theory Trumped Political Theology in Fourteenth-Century Paris Stephen G. Nichols Open Access Download PDF	37
Cross-Cultural Inventions in Drama on the Basis of the Novel in Prose, or World Literature before World Literature: The Case of Fortunatus Sandra Richter Open Access Download PDF	53
Sex on Stage: How Does the Audience Know? (Dovizi da Bibbiena, La Calandra, III.10; Shakespeare, Henry V, V.2) Esther Schomacher Open Access Download PDF	69
Castiglione’s ‘Green’ Sense of Theater Stefano Gulizia Open Access Download PDF	101
Luigi Groto’s Adriana: A Laboratory Experiment on Literary Genre Bernhard Huss Open Access Download PDF	119
The Agency of Errors: Hamartia and its (Mis)interpretations in the Italian Cinquecento Cristina Savettieri Open Access Download PDF	149
Playful Institutions: Social and Textual Practices in Early Spanish Academies Stephanie Bung Open Access Download PDF	169
The Role of Music in Folk Drama: An Investigation Based on Tyrolean Sources Franz Gratl Open Access Download PDF	185
From a Rhetorical to a ‘Natural’ Art of Acting: What the Networks of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Achieved Erika Fischer-Lichte Open Access Download PDF	199
Early Modern Religious Processions: The Rise and Fall of a Political Genre Jaša Drnovšek Open Access Download PDF	215
Directions, Examples, and Incentives: Slovenian Playwriting in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Igor Grdina Open Access Download PDF	225
Variants of Hypólepsis: Rhetorical, Anthropistic, Dramatic (With Remarks on Terence, Machiavelli, Shakespeare) D. S. Mayfield Open Access Download PDF	233
Index Open Access Download PDF	275

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Comparative Literature, Drama Studies, History of Literature, Early Modern Literature, History of Ideas
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
Keywords: Drama; History of Ideas; Comparative Literature; Early Modern Europe

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Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110536690

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Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110536652

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110709469