583,37 : Net Structures and Agencies in Early Modern Drama

Toni Bernhart

ISBN 10: 3110709465 / ISBN 13: 9783110709469

Published by De Gruyter, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 583,37 : Net Structures and Agencies in Early Modern Drama
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110709465
• ISBN 13: 9783110709469
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 155H x 16D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 431 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Toni Bernhart, Jaša Drnovšek, Sven Thorsten Kilian, Joachim Küpper und Jan Mosch, Freie Universität Berlin.

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