The Cultural Net - Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm

This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.

About the author

Joachim Küpper, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Joachim Küpper
• Assisted by: European Research Council (ERC) (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2018
• EAN: 9783110536386
• ISBN: 978-3-11-053638-6
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 21 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 593 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Schauspiel, Europa, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Drama - Dramatiker, Nationalliteraturen; Medientheorie; Netzwerktheorie; Theater; Frühe Neuzeit; Network Theory of Cultural Evolution; Early Modern European Drama; Mass Media; National Literatures