Claviez, Thomas (2020). The Relevance of the Irrelevant: Wisdom and/of Contingency (In Press). In: Dorson, James; Sedlmeier, Florian; Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn; Wege, Birte (eds.) Anecdotal modernity : making and unmaking history. Anglia Book Series: Vol. 68 (pp. 169-180). Berlin: De Gruyter
Full text not available from this repository.The anecdote has, for quite some time, enjoyed a rather singular position within literary studies. When perusing the growing corpus of academic essays and books on the subject of the anecdote, one cannot fail to notice that hardly a single contribution exists that does not refer, one way or another, ex- or implicitly, to the thoroughly contingent nature of this phenomenon. In what follows, I will put this quality at the center of my investigation in order to inquire into the anecdote’s epistemico-ontological status. And I will do so by reading it in connection with Walter Benjamin’s famous essay on “The Storyteller,” as this text provides us with a context that allows us to put its status – as something “irrelevantly relevant” – into perspective.
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Literary Theory |
UniBE Contributor: |
Claviez, Thomas |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 810 American literature in English 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures |
ISSN: |
0340-5453 |
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978-3-11-062953-8 |
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Anglia Book Series |
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De Gruyter |
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English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Claviez |
Date Deposited: |
03 Jun 2021 08:24 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:48 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Contingency, History, Storytelling, Unity, Walter Benjamin. |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152886 |
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