To browse Academia. This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.
Within the project there are six doctoral thesis sub-projects and another six post-doctoral "second book" sub-projects focusing on specific aspects of the question addressed by the larger re search project; in addition, there are five volumes presenting the proceedings of the conferences organized by the DramaNet reaearch project.
I elaborate on the concepts outlined in this essay in my book. The article illuminates Goethe's Faust 1 and 2 by tracing the theoretical conceptualization of an intermedial approach to theatre and performance, and argues for a historical dimension to the medial constitution of perception.
While Goethe used the Faust-legend in his play to highlight two competitive orders of knowledge and media by presenting, on the one hand, the romantic, electric, and Mephistotelian ways of seeing and, on the other hand, the classic, literal and scientific order of knowledge; the Catalan theatre group Fura dels Baus transfer this conflict to the digital age in their remediation of the Faustlegend on the contemporary stage.
The paper presents the history of Romanian theatre, beginning with the creation of the first Romanian itinerant theatre company, at the middle of the 18 th century, to the present. It is intended as a foreword and a chronological framework to this special issue of Studia Dramatica. The year is the centenary of the union of Transylvania, Banat, as well as of Bessarabia and North Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania. The " Great Union " at the end of the First World War, as known in Romanian historiography, crowned the Romanians' movements of national and cultural emancipation from the ward of the Habsburg Monarchy followed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire , of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, movements initiated in the second half of the 18 th century and intensified in the 19 th.
