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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779725203321

Autore

Müller-Funk Wolfgang

Titolo

The architecture of modern culture [[electronic resource] ] : towards a narrative cultural theory / / Wolfgang Müller-Funk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

3-11-028305-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Culture & conflict, , 2194-7104 ; ; v. 3

Classificazione

EC 2410

Disciplina

808.3/01/4

808.3/014

Soggetti

Culture

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Culture and its narratives -- pt. 2. Space, time and the global -- pt. 3. The heritage of classical modernism : Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka.

Sommario/riassunto

These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time a