The rumour : a cultural history /
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| Author / Creator: | Neubauer, Hans-Joachim, 1960- |
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| Uniform title: | Fama. English |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Free Association Books, 1999. |
| Description: | ix, 201 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4311584 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. "Divine Voice", Myth and History
- A Martyr of Rumour
- "even Talk is in some ways divine"
- The Trace of the Voice
- Signal Post
- Wetter than Water
- 2. Fama, a Model
- The Last Aristocrat
- Eyes, Ears, Mouths, Feathers
- Arrest Warrant
- The House of Fama
- Material in Red Pasteboard
- 3. Rumour and the Loophole in Hearsay
- Half a Dozen Cobbler's Pegs, Two Fanfares
- In the House of Fame
- Dynamic Architecture
- The Land of Tapestry
- Rumore
- Rumor's Cloak
- 4. Antiquity 1917: Modernity and Warfare
- The Spy from Braisne
- Colonisers of the Imagination
- Censorship
- The Zone of Myth Formation
- 5. Stigma or the Poetics of the Rumour
- The Maids of Orleans
- Trient, Dormagen and other Roots
- Stigma in Schroffenstein
- Makah in Russia
- Trobriander on the Weser
- The Poetics of Culture
- 6. "Rumor Clinics" and other Forms of Control
- Hotline
- Rumor Clinics
- Rhetoric
- Control Centres
- Limits of Control
- 7. The Search for the Formula for the Rumour
- The Click in the Region of the Heart
- Virus?
- Formulae, Functions
- The Solution
- The Spiral of the Rumour
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
