History and Drama

The Pan-European Tradition

Joachim Küpper, Jan Mosch, Elena Penskaya (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 202 Seiten

2020
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-073644-1 (ISBN)

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Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Joachim Küpper und Jan Mosch, Freie Universität Berlin; Elena Penskaya, Higher School of Economics, Moskau, Russland.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2020
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Comparative Literature • Drama • Early Modern Europe • Europa • Frühe Neuzeit • history of ideas • Ideengeschichte
ISBN-10	3-11-073644-6 / 3110736446
ISBN-13	978-3-11-073644-1 / 9783110736441
Zustand	Neuware