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The Cultural Net

Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm

By: Joachim Küpper

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The Cultural Net

Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm

By: Joachim Küpper

This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.

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513

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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ISBN 10

3110601737

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9783110601732

Discursive “Renovatio” in Lope de Vega and Calderón

Studies on Spanish Baroque Drama

By: Joachim Küpper

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Discursive “Renovatio” in Lope de Vega and Calderón

Studies on Spanish Baroque Drama

By: Joachim Küpper

This volume presents a new approach to Spanish Baroque drama, inspired by Foucauldian discourse archeology, whose rare fusion of meticulous philology and ambitious theory will be exciting and fruitful both for specialists of Spanish literature and for anyone invested in the history of European thought. Detailed readings are dedicated to some of the most prominent plays by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca, both autos sacramentales (El viaje del alma; El divino Orfeo; La lepra de Constantino) and comedias (El castigo sin venganza; El príncipe constante; El médico de su honra). The "archeological" perspective cast on the plays implies an integration of their discourse-historical "foils", from pagan antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as a discussion of related discourses, mainly theological, philosophical and historiographical. A separate "excursus" suggests a reconsideration of the common manner in which the discursive relation between the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Mannerism and the Baroque is conceptualized.

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