Anecdotal Modernity : : Making and Unmaking History / / ed. by Florian Sedlmeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Birte Wege, James Dorson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Birus, Hendrik,; Breinig, Helmbrecht,; Claviez, Thomas,; Decker, Christof,; Falkenhausen, Susanne von,; Gross, Andrew S.,; Haverkamp, Anselm,; Ickstadt, Heinz,; Kelleter, Frank,; Mahler, Andreas,; Menke, Bettine,; Mülder-Bach, Inka,; Olejniczak Lobsien, Verena,; Poole, Ralph J.,; Schwab, Gabriele,; Sedlmeier, Florian,; Siemerling, Winfried,; Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn,; Teja Bach, Friedrich,; Vinken, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Dorson, James,; Sedlmeier, Florian,; Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn,; Wege, Birte,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 68
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 306 p.)

Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume expl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• TRUTH
• The Heathen in Heaven: Anecdote and Truth in Dante’s Commedia
• Anecdotal Ambiguity: Andrew Marvell
• A Hideous and Intolerable … Anecdote? Moby-Dick and Questions of Truth Seen from the Human and the Non-Human Side
• EVENT
• Heinrich von Kleist’s “Anecdote from the Last War”: W-hole, the Joke an Anecdote (Nearly) Made
• Individual Case, Example, Exception: The Range of the Anecdotal in Fontane
• Once is Nothing at All is Once: Traces of Eventfulness in Joyce and Beckett
• The Politics of Splitting: Gertrude Stein’s “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb”
• STORY
• Plot and Anecdote in Henry James and Julian Barnes
• The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency
• Accumulated Time, the Anecdote, and the Vertical Imagination
• RUMOR
• The Fun of Deep Gossip: Lord Cornbury as Queen in Drag
• An Anecdote Peddler from the Age of Goethe
• Anecdotal Manifestations of the Evangelical Here and Now: Four Conversions in Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton
• DETAIL
• The Cage of the Image and the Trace of the Snail: On the Language of Pictorial Detail
• Anecdote vs. History: Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk
• A Unique Universalism: Ben Shahn and the Rhetoric of Visual Anecdotes
• Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric
• CODA
• Philosophy and Anecdote: Hegel’s “Lehrer Löffler”
• “Fleurs de Paris”
• List of Contributors