Dublin Core
Creator
Stephen Jaeger
Title
"The Text as a Symbol of Decadence"
Source
The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Description
Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer 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.
Date
2001