Truth in Serial Form: Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Truth in Serial Form

Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930

Edited by: Malika Maskarinec
Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 15 in the series Paradigms

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795110

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This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture of the late nineteenth century, very much shaped by these serialized formats, sees itself confronted with questions of truthfulness in new and profound ways, just as perhaps the accelerated rhythm, anonymity, and broadened accessibility of new media today have created new possibilities for the dissemination of misinformation and, conversely, give us cause to interrogate anew our notions of truthfulness. By examining both the formal operations of both aesthetic and scientific objects in a series form, and the historical context of their publication or presentation, the contributions in this volume examine the often strained, but yet immensely productive relationship between the way in which a series negotiates questions of truthfulness: both by reference to the rules established in its series form or by means of its serial format. This volume provides ten detailed cases of the series form from the history of science and journalism, and the history of painting, photography, and literature as well.

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Malika Maskarinec, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930 Malika Maskarinec Open Access Download PDF	1
I Serial Temporalities
Heine’s Serial Histories of the Revolution Sean Franzel Open Access Download PDF	23
World History in Six Installments: Epistemic Seriality and the Epistemology of Series Mario Wimmer Open Access Download PDF	55
“Nachkommenschaften”: Stifter’s Series Elisabeth Strowick Open Access Download PDF	83
Le temps retrouvé: Claude Monet’s Series between Impression and Belatedness Barbara Wittmann Open Access Download PDF	115
Sequencing Failure: Photodynamism and the Knotting of Time Katja Müller-Helle Open Access Download PDF	149
II Serial Formats
Trying on the Drawing Room: Realness and Truth in and out of Photographs Eva Ehninger Open Access Download PDF	171
The Bachelor: Gottfried Keller’s “Der Landvogt von Greifensee” and Serial Erotics Malika Maskarinec Open Access Download PDF	195
Max Klinger’s Ein Handschuh as Cycle and Series Ralph Ubl Open Access Download PDF	221
DIN A: The Basis of All Thought Markus Krajewski Open Access Download PDF	253
Serial Untruth: The Feuilleton and the Ornamental Image Patrizia McBride Open Access Download PDF	277
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	291
Index Open Access Download PDF	293

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary studies, historians of the 19th century, art historians, scholars interested in aesthetics
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 295
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 41
- Coloured Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Serialization; form; realism; epistemics

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Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110795110

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110795080