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Festbeschreibung

Funktion und Topik einer Textsorte am Beispiel der Beschreibung höfischer Hochzeiten (1568-1794)
  • Thomas Rahn
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2006
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With reference to the texts, typography, and illustrations of various kinds of ceremonial description, the study analyzes the topicology of this text genre, the task of which is to reduce the sensual complexity of courtly festivities and concentrate entirely on ceremonially relevant features. The function of ceremonial descriptions is determined in the context of the ceremonial aesthetics prevalent in the early modern age. Investigation of the paratexts situates the aporetic rhetorical identity of the genre between the stylistic demands of reader-oriented rhetoric on the one hand and historiography on the other. Emphasis is given to the origins of ceremonious description in the 16th century and the topicological changes it underwent in the late 18th century.

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"Aufgrund seiner fundierten Quellenkenntnis und seines damit verbundenen souveränen Zugriffs auf das Exemplarische leistet Thomas Rahn einen auch für Historiker lesenswerten Beitrag zur Erforschung höfischer Publizistik in der Frühen Neuzeit."
Jill Bepler in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 3/2008

"...it is certainly a work that all researchers into court culture in the German-speaking world will have to read."
Helen Watanabe-O`Kelly in: Arbitrium, 1/2008

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 19, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110947328
Hardcover published on:
June 2, 2006
Hardcover ISBN:
9783484366084
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
7
Main content:
310
Illustrations:
25
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