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Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
Friedrich Kittler
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Description for Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
Paperback. This is an original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. Translator(s): Cullens, Chris; Metteer, Michael. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 33. Weight in Grams: 650.
This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between 'discourse networks' in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism that is currently of great interest among American literary scholars, both in the intellectual influences to which Kittler responds and in his concern to ground literature in the most concrete ... Read more
This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between 'discourse networks' in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism that is currently of great interest among American literary scholars, both in the intellectual influences to which Kittler responds and in his concern to ground literature in the most concrete ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Weight
650g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804720991
SKU
V9780804720991
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Reviews for Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
A new and encyclopedic vision of modern German literary, intellectual and social history, achieved through the optic of discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and semiotic theory, analyzed in a spirit of playfulness and impudent precision. -Stanley Corngold, Princeton University