Sociability and society : literature and the symposium /
"Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem increasingly ill-equipped to defend against the disintegration of sociability, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer encour...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés alemán |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3540215 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conceptualizing the symposium
- Power and signs of power in the Middle Ages
- Sociability and the humanities
- The splintering of culture : reading vs. salon
- Proust and 19th century salons
- The silence of power : English clubs or oligarchy vs. democracy
- A symptomatology of critical shifts
- Securing power and auxiliary evidence
- The paradigm of isolation and its consequences : Joseph Conrad
- Beyond the sympotic : aesthetic productivity and sociable bonding in the detective novel
- Consequences and conclusion(s) : the anthropological-institutional trap and the resurrection of literature.