Positionierungen: Pragmatische Perspektiven auf Literatur und Musik der Frühneuzeit

With the aid of several different case studies, the entries within this volume show that works of literature and music are located in concrete living-world or discursive contexts, which serve the purpose of determining the location of the author and his/her work. In this way, the anthology aims to encourage cultural research, which, despite all theoretical exaggeration and hasty updates, reverts to the concrete texts within their living-world, social and historical contexts. To this extent, the "positioning" is rather programmatic within a renewing social history of culture.