Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration

ISBN 10: 3030769720 / ISBN 13: 9783030769727

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2022

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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited accessOffers the first large-scale attempt to understand list-making as a unique cultural phenomenon Argues that in contexts of list-making form and function are intrica.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030769720
• ISBN 13: 9783030769727
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, medieval painting, Enlightenment periodicals, nineteenth-century botanical geography, American Beat poetry and contemporary photobooks. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is a unique contribution to an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists.

About the Author

Roman Alexander Barton was appointed assistant professor at Freiburg University, Germany, in 2020. Previously, he held a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the ERC-funded project Lists in Literature and Culture. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century philosophy and fiction. Currently, he investigates the history of the literary list and modernist short drama.

Julia Caroline Böckling works as a research associate at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, where she pursues a PhD on the relationship between lists and consumerism as part of the ERC-funded project Lists in Literature and Culture. Her research interests include intertextuality, representations of consumerism, and narratology.

Sarah J. Link is a research associate at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the ERC-funded project Lists in Literature and Culture, where she recently completed her PhD on lists indetective fiction. Her research interests include narratology, cognitive literary studies, Romanticism, detective fiction, and literature and science.

 Anne Rüggemeier is postdoctoral research fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany. As a member of the ERC-funded project Lists in Literature and Culture she investigates the multiple ways in which lists in illness narratives re-negotiate the power effects of science and administration. She has published extensively on life writing, relationality, graphic narratives and in the field of medical humanities.