Overview

Current interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a fresh look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the """"technologies of authority"""" from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. The contributors are Claire Baldwin, Thomas Cramer, Arthur Groos, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Jane O. Newman, James F. Poag, David Price, Rudiger Schnell, Lynne Tatlock, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

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Author:   Claire Baldwin
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781469615042

ISBN 10:   1469615045
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The collection of this volume, as a whole, provides a diachronic view of the complex question of the establishment of authority in a wide range of genres (including music and art) through seven centuries. The authors are ingenious in calling upon a large number of variegated approaches with appropriate examples to illustrate their arguments.--Daphnis

The collection of this volume, as a whole, provides a diachronic view of the complex question of the establishment of authority in a wide range of genres (including music and art) through seven centuries. The authors are ingenious in calling upon a large number of variegated approaches with appropriate examples to illustrate their arguments.""--Daphnis

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James F. Poag is professor emeritus of German at Washington University in St. Louis.|Claire Baldwin is assistant professor of German at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

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