| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 378 pages) |
| Series |
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; v. 18 |
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Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 / Mary Helen Dupree and Sean Franzel -- Sounds and stages / Viktoria Tkaczyk -- The making of acoustics around 1800, or how to do science with words / Dietmar Till -- The fate of rhetoric in the "long" eighteenth century / Ellwood Wiggins -- Pity play: sympathy and spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments / Rebecca Wolf -- The sound of glass: transparency and danger / Mary Helen Dupree -- Early Schiller memorials (1805-1808) and the performance of literary knowledge / Hans-Georg von Arburg -- Modern architecture takes the stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's architectural spectacles: pedagogies and publics / Claire Baldwin -- Performance and play: Lichtenberg's lectures on experimental physics / Chad Wellmon -- Kant on the logic of anthropology and the ethics of disciplinarity / Michael Bies -- Staging the knowledge of plants: Goethe's elegy "The metamorphosis of plants" / Edgar Landgraf -- Playing to the public: performing politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Sean Franzel -- Constructions of the present and the philosophy of history in the lecture form / Adrian Daub -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms of musical knowledge: the case of the piano / Angela Esterhammer -- Afterword: the audience, the public, and the improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz |
| Summary |
This volume addresses how practices and concepts of performance contribute to the production and circulation of knowledge in German-speaking Europe between 1750 and 1850. Building on recent work in the history of science, media theory, and performance theory, the essays in this volume discuss a range of different scholarly, literary, musical, and theatrical scenes of performance and take up the question of knowledge transfers in new ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Performing arts
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Wissenschaftstransfer
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Musik
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Aufführung
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Wissensproduktion
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Scenisk konst -- historia.
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Kunskapsteori -- historia.
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dupree, Mary Helen, 1974- editor.
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Franzel, Sean, editor
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| ISBN |
9783110421064 |
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3110421062 |
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9783110421125 |
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3110421127 |
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