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Record Nr.

UNISA996524967803316

Titolo

Truth in Serial Form : Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930 / / ed. by Malika Maskarinec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-11-079511-6

Edizione

[Eine Auflage.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 295 p.)

Collana

Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences , , 2195-2205 ; ; 15

Disciplina

070.572

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930 -- I Serial Temporalities -- Heine’s Serial Histories of the Revolution -- World History in Six Installments: Epistemic Seriality and the Epistemology of Series -- “Nachkommenschaften”: Stifter’s Series -- Le temps retrouvé: Claude Monet’s Series between Impression and Belatedness -- Sequencing Failure: Photodynamism and the Knotting of Time -- II Serial Formats -- Trying on the Drawing Room: Realness and Truth in and out of Photographs -- The Bachelor: Gottfried Keller’s “Der Landvogt von Greifensee” and Serial Erotics -- Max Klinger’s Ein Handschuh as Cycle and Series -- DIN A: The Basis of All Thought -- Serial Untruth: The Feuilleton and the Ornamental Image -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture of the late nineteenth century, very much shaped by these serialized formats, sees itself confronted with questions of truthfulness in new and profound ways, just as perhaps the accelerated rhythm, anonymity, and broadened accessibility of new media today have created new possibilities for the dissemination of misinformation and, conversely, give us cause to interrogate anew our



notions of truthfulness. By examining both the formal operations of both aesthetic and scientific objects in a series form, and the historical context of their publication or presentation, the contributions in this volume examine the often strained, but yet immensely productive relationship between the way in which a series negotiates questions of truthfulness: both by reference to the rules established in its series form or by means of its serial format. This volume provides ten detailed cases of the series form from the history of science and journalism, and the history of painting, photography, and literature as well.