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The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its' Legitimations in Eighteenth-century German Literature
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from Walter De Gruyter Inc (June 30, 2012); titled "The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature"
9783110271942 | details & prices | 215 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $105.00
About: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.
About: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.