K. Ludwig Pfeiffer

Sociability and Society

Literature and the Symposium

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published in German in 2021 under the title Das Symposion. Sozialer Zusammenhalt in Geschichte und Literatur."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781503634848
• ISBN-10: 1503634841
• Artikelnr.: 64541098

Autorenporträt

K. Ludwig Pfeiffer is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Siegen and at Jacobs University Bremen. He is the author of The Protoliterary: Steps toward the Anthropology of Culture (Stanford, 2002), in addition to his many books in German.

Inhaltsangabe

0. Introduction
1. Conceptualizing the Symposium
2. Power and Signs of Power in the Middle Ages
3. Sociability and the Humanities
4. The Splintering of Culture: Reading versus Salon
5. Proust and Nineteenth-Century Salons
6. The Silence of Power: English Clubs or Oligarchy versus Democracy
7. A Symptomatology of Critical Shifts
8. Securing Power and Auxiliary Evidence
9. The Paradigm of Isolation and Its Consequences: Joseph Conrad
10. Beyond the Sympotic: Aesthetic Productivity and Sociable Bonding in the
Detective Novel
11. Consequences and Conclusion(s): The Anthropological-Institutional Trap
and the Resurrection of Literature