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Little research interest has been directed so far toward the way in which interviews represent a specific form of documentary literature. The study looks at a large, but entirely …
The study is designed as a contribution a) to the theory underlying the history of ideas and concepts, b) to the analysis of the term Bildung, and c) to research on Goethe. Taking …
The volume addresses methodological questions raised by a sociological and socio-historical approach to literary history and tests them in ten studies on the theory and practice of …
In Germany, the debate about the pros and cons of advanced literary sociology sparked off by Pierre Bourdieu's basic work -The Rules of Art- has mostly taken place on an abstract …
The present study sets out to reformulate problems posed by the socio-historical explanation of literature by regarding them in terms of systems theory. It shows how, under the …
What happened around 1900 to universal semantic systems like aesthetics and ethics when German society underwent a radical change from a stratificational to a functional form of …
With its groundings in social psychology and linguistics, this study sets out (a) to provide a theoretical characterization of national stereotypes as a topic in literary studies, …
The book rests on advanced concepts central to systems theory and semiology, i.e. Niklas Luhmann's theory of the structural link between consciousness and communication and C.S. …