series: Communicatio

Published by De Gruyter

Communicatio

Kultur – Text – Medium

Edited by: Jürgen Fohrmann and Brigitte Weingart

ISSN: 0941-1704

Overview
Volumes

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die die Trias aus Kultur, Text und Medium in ihrer wechselseitigen Bezogenheit zum Gegenstand der Untersuchung machen.

Die Prozesse des Mitteilens und der Vermittlung, auf die sich der Begriff der Communicatio bezieht, entfalten sich stets in spezifischen kulturellen Zusammenhängen, auf die sie gleichzeitig zurückwirken. In den Beiträgen der Reihe werden Kommunikationskulturen sowohl als Effekt von Formgebung (als Text/textum) wie mit Blick auf ihre medialen Bedingungen untersucht. Dies setzt notwendig einen erweiterten Textbegriff voraus, der symbolische Praktiken in Wort, Bild und Klang umfasst.

Die Studien widmen sich diesen Zusammenhängen sowohl in ihren systematischen wie fallbezogenen Ausprägungen. Sie gehen den historischen und gegenwärtigen Konstellationen nach, in denen sich das Zusammenspiel von Formgebung, Mediendifferenz und kultureller Rahmung sowohl entfaltet als auch transformiert – um dann zu neuen Formen der Verknüpfung, kommunikativer Praxis und medialer Entwicklung zu führen.

Die Reihe verbindet so medienwissenschaftliche Expertise mit literatur- und kulturgeschichtlichem Wissen und bietet auf diese Weise sowohl konzeptuelle wie historisch informierte Beiträge zur Formdimension gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen.

Author / Editor information

Jürgen Fohrmann, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Brigitte Weingart, Universität der Künste Berlin.

book: Filmische Leseszenen

Book 2021

Filmische Leseszenen

Ausdruck und Wahrnehmung ästhetischer Erfahrung

Timo Rouget

Volume 52 in this series

Scenes of reading are omnipresent throughout film history. This interdisciplinary study is the first to characterize the structures, functions, and interpretations of filmic stagings of sensuous and aesthetic acts of readings. In doing so, it does not simply close a gap in the research discourses of media studies and the sociology of reading, but also makes an original contribution to contemporary debates about aesthetic experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110728590
ISBN:: 9783110728590
ISBN:: 9783110728637
ISBN:: 9783110726787
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Subject:: Sociology of Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kultursemiotik digitaler Bildzeichen der tunesischen Revolution

Book 2021

Kultursemiotik digitaler Bildzeichen der tunesischen Revolution

Visuelle Protestkultur zwischen 2010 und 2013

Julius Erdmann

Volume 51 in this series

The Tunisian Revolution of 2010–11 was marked by a new culture of online protest. The extensive use of digital icons in social media was one prominent feature of this protest. In this investigation of cultural semiotics, the author traces the formation of collective structures of meaning, demonstrating their significance for revolutionary and post-revolutionary protest.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643985
ISBN:: 9783110643985
ISBN:: 9783110644432
ISBN:: 9783110638455
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Media Aesthetics
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Digital Media and Communication
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Semiotics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Paranoia und technisches Bild

Book 2021

Paranoia und technisches Bild

Fallstudien zu einer Medienpathologie

Elena Meilicke

Volume 50 in this series

This book examines paranoia as a “media pathology.” It considers conspiracy narratives with regard to their handling of technical images and asks to what extent we can recognize an implicit knowledge of photographic media and technologies, of their paranoid constitution and paranoia-inducing effects. The overarching aim is to describe a specifically paranoid form of media knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650372
ISBN:: 9783110650372
ISBN:: 9783111280165
ISBN:: 9783110649543
ISBN:: 9783110651461
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Media Aesthetics
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sand als metaphorisches Modell für Virtualität

Book 2020

Sand als metaphorisches Modell für Virtualität

Annina Klappert

Volume 49 in this series

Following Gilles Deleuze, this book envisions virtuality as opposed not to reality but to actuality, connecting this relationship with Niklas Luhmann’s conceptions of medium and form. Sand is treated as a metaphorical model of virtuality given its quality as a medium, i.e. its openness to shaping and dissolving different forms. The study examines the implications of these processes for literature, theory, and art.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110651522
ISBN:: 9783110651522
ISBN:: 9783110648171
ISBN:: 9783110646337
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Subject:: Performativeness
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kleists Medien

Book 2019

Kleists Medien

Arndt Niebisch

Volume 48 in this series

This book examines Heinrich von Kleist’s relationships to the media as author, journalist, and correspondent. His literary works were a sensitive reflection of the media landscape of his times, and his publication projects, the best known of which was the Berliner Abendblätter, may be seen as an experiment to develop something akin to “social media,” in which the audience actively collaborated in the media production.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646061
ISBN:: 9783110646061
ISBN:: 9783110763386
ISBN:: 9783110629576
ISBN:: 9783110645279
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: McLuhans Tricksterrede

Book 2018

McLuhans Tricksterrede

Archäologie einer Medientheorie

Jana Mangold

Volume 47 in this series

Marshal McLuhan’s writings established media studies. The eccentric way he developed and presented his ideas, however, has consistently led readers and critics to doubt the academic status of his work. Is he a scholar, an author playing with words, or perhaps a trickster? This book examines McLuhan’s writing style and questions its function in the production of knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110558647
ISBN:: 9783110558647
ISBN:: 9783110709018
ISBN:: 9783110557008
ISBN:: 9783110556315
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gewalt des Schweigens

Book 2014

Gewalt des Schweigens

Verletzendes Nichtsprechen bei Thomas Bernhard, Kobo Abe, Ingeborg Bachmann und Kenzaburo Oe

Reika Hane

Volume 46 in this series

Silence can be injurious – similar to words, yet different. This study uses the perspectives of literary and cultural studies to examine the violence of silence in the works of Thomas Bernhard, Kōbō Abe, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Kenzaburō Ōe. Close readings yield concrete illustrations of current theories regarding subtle forms of violence and interrogate silence in the context of gender, politics, economy, and cultural memory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331455
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033127-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033145-5
ISBN:: 9783110369854
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Asian Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zwischen Verstand und Gefühl

Book 2013

Zwischen Verstand und Gefühl

Romanheldinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts

Dana Kestner

Volume 45 in this series

This work examines the validity of 19th century gender discourses. Using a selection of novels from the German, English, and French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, it explores the thesis that there is a specifically feminine conflict between understanding and emotion. Using contemporary instructional manuals for comparison, it undertakes a historical exploration of the contextual place of the Western European novel in gender discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331479
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033128-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033147-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Idealstaat und Anthropologie

Book 2013

Idealstaat und Anthropologie

Problemgeschichte der literarischen Utopie im späten 18. Jahrhundert

Matthias Löwe

Volume 44 in this series

When “anthropology” and aesthetics struck up a close alliance during the late Enlightenment, this threw literary utopias into a deep crisis. Tracts about societies composed of autonomously reasoning individuals clashed with an image of human nature that emphasized the power of the conditioned body. Especially on account of their dubious reputation, utopias give us the chance to reflect upon “anthropology” as an explosive new form of knowledge. This study examines how thinkers of the Enlightenment and Romanticism used the utopian genre to respond to the ethical and political problems resulting from the “rehabilitation of sensualism”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292619
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029216-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029261-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Famas Medium

Book 2012

Famas Medium

Zur Theorie der Zeitung in Deutschland zwischen dem 17. und dem mittleren 19. Jahrhundert

Hedwig Pompe

Volume 43 in this series

As the new medium of the 17th century, the newspaper helped shape the core structural conditions for modernity: an accelerated pace of circulation, new information pathways, networking, and the reproduction of knowledge. These changes confronted the academic world with a major conceptual challenge: How should one describe the complexity associated with the newspaper as a new medium? The study traces the history of discourse about “Fama's Medium” (Fama was the Roman Goddess of rumor) between the 17th and the 19th centuries, and shows how that discourse might be linked to modern media theory, such as that of Marshall McLuhan.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289510
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028371-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028951-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: L’étranger intime

Book 2014

L’étranger intime

Les traductions françaises de l’œuvre de Paul Celan (1971-2010)

Evelyn Dueck

Volume 42 in this series

For the first time, this study offers a detailed analysis of the translations of Paul Celan’s poetry published in French from 1971 to 2010. In addition, the author proposes a new model for translating poetry and analyzing poetic translation that extends beyond the work of Celan and engages critically with existing methods. As a result, it becomes possible to read Paul Celan’s poetry from an entirely new, foreign, and yet familiar perspective.

La présente étude offre, pour la première fois, une analyse détaillée des traductions françaises de la poésie de Paul Celan publiées entre 1971 et 2010. Elle élabore, par ailleurs, une pensée de la traduction poétique et de son analyse qui dépasse l’œuvre celanienne et qui prend position par rapport aux méthodes existantes. Elle ouvre ainsi la voie à une lecture tout à fait nouvelle, étrangère et pourtant intime de la poésie de Paul Celan.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110342963
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027900-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034296-3
ISBN:: 9783110374735
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Klassiker jenseits der Klassik

Book 2010

Klassiker jenseits der Klassik

Wilhelm Heinses 'Ardinghello' - Individualitätskonzeption und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Leonhard Herrmann

Volume 41 in this series

Wilhelm Heinse’s novel Ardinghello und die glückseligen Inseln (‘Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands’) (1787) is often rejected as an unsuitable object for literary criticism – it is seen as formally defective, overladen with theory and hardly comprehensible to the modern reader. Leonhard Herrmann demonstrates that it is these very qualities which make it worthy of consideration as the manifestation of a philosophical experiment – the sensual, empirical individual with free will. Although this experiment must ultimately fail, the novel continues to find enthusiastic readers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110230963
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023037-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023096-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: La traduction de la poésie allemande en français dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle

Book 2009

La traduction de la poésie allemande en français dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle

Réception et interaction poétique

Christine Lombez

Volume 40 in this series

This study analyses the general significance of translation in the literary life of an epoch, a country and a language, and engages in particular with the status of German lyric poetry in French literature in the first half of the 19th century. In the wider context of a study of the problem of translation, the author enquires into the poetical affinity and relative synchronicity of Germany and France, and points the way to areas which have not yet been sufficiently researched, such as the significance of translations and translators for the development of French poetry. She goes beyond traditional research approaches into “influence” and sees translation as the vehicle for the transfer of motifs or forms, or of changes in metre.

L’ouvrage illustre l’importance du rôle joué par la traduction de la poésie allemande dans l’espace littéraire français de la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Cette enquête favorise l’étude de problématiques encore peu exploitées (place des traductions et des traducteurs de la poésie allemande dans le développement de la création poétique française, traduction comme vecteur du transfert de motifs ou de formes poétiques, de modifications métriques, etc.), dans une perspective dynamique dépassant la traditionnelle approche des „influences” et ouvrant une nouvelle voie à l’étude et à la critique des traductions en général.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970366
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63040-6
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97036-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Nächte der Aufklärung

Book 2007

Nächte der Aufklärung

Studien zur Ästhetik, Ethik und Erkenntnistheorie in »Voyage au bout de la nuit« von Louis-Ferdinand Céline und »Die Schlafwandler« von Hermann Broch

Alice Staskovà

Volume 39 in this series

The studies offer a comprehensive literary interpretation of the novels Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Die Schlafwandler by Hermann Broch. Against the background of related subject matter – the crisis in Europe after the First World War – and with special reference to the authors’ prophetic approach, the novels are examined in terms of the way they shape the relations between esthetic, ethical and cognitive elements. The main focus of the interpretation is on the different ways in which the two novels engage with the connection between art and social praxis in times of artistic autonomy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970427
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63039-0
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97042-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der Staatsroman im Werk Wielands und Jean Pauls

Book 2007

Der Staatsroman im Werk Wielands und Jean Pauls

Gattungsverhandlungen zwischen Poetologie und Politik

Helge Jordheim

Volume 38 in this series

What is politics? What is a novel? In the mid 18th century these questions were still unresolved. The study exploits this state of affairs for closer investigation of the convergence between genre theory and political theory. It takes its bearings from the "genre negotiations" to be found in the novels of Wieland and Jean Paul, disquisitions in which these authors attempt to arrive at conclusions about the political and poetological conditions under which they are writing. In terms of the history of the (German) novel, the background is formed by the transformations undergone by the 'Staatsroman' (political novel) genre on the threshold from the Baroque to the modern age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110937398
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63038-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093739-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das deutschsprachige Prosagedicht

Book Open Access 2005

Das deutschsprachige Prosagedicht

Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Gattung der Moderne

Wolfgang Bunzel

Volume 37 in this series

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The study examines the entire spectrum of forms taken by the prose poem in Germany between 1880 and 1920, presenting the first comprehensive history of this genre in the European literary context from a perspective angled toward cultural studies and media history. It also engages with the influence of French genre patterns and traces the corresponding intercultural exchange processes between the national literatures of Europe. In its consistent endeavour to regard genre history in conjunction with the history of communication it proposes a theory of the prose poem in the context of literary modernity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928921
ISBN:: 9783110928921
ISBN:: 9783484630376
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Buchgestützte Subjektivität

Book 2006

Buchgestützte Subjektivität

Literarische Formen der Selbstsorge und der Selbsthermeneutik von Platon bis Montaigne

Christian Moser

Volume 36 in this series

Discourse-analytic, media-historical, and genre-theoretical approaches are combined here to cast new light on the pre-history of modern subjectivity and its literary representation. Of central concern is the connection between reading, writing, and the constitution of the Subject. The study reveals the ancient roots of this writing-based form of subjectivity, reveals its affinity to specific literary forms of representation, and traces its transformation in the transition to the Christian Middle Ages and the early modern age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928938
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63036-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092893-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Menschenwissen

Book 2006

Menschenwissen

Zur Poetik des religiösen Menschen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Markus Steinmayr

Volume 35 in this series

In the early modern age, religious knowledge was not limited to the prospective definition of metaphysical expectations. It served rather as the basis for reflection on, and normative description of, the human self in religious autobiographies and religious anthropology. This study demonstrates that for the 17th and 18th centuries the culture-historical dynamics of secularization consisted in the generation of tensions between edifying and literary writing, religious and medical anthropology, and religious and secular life. Social evolution occasioned the supplanting of religious concerns by autobiography and the Bildungsroman. This process took place in constant conjunction with the changing media landscape, replacing interactive patterns of observation with writing-based alternatives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928945
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63035-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092894-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das schwarze Licht der Moderne

Book 2006

Das schwarze Licht der Moderne

Zur Ästhetikgeschichte der Blindheit

Kai Nonnenmacher

Volume 34 in this series

Homer, Milton, Ossian. The aesthetic history of blindness goes straight to heart of visual modernity. This book examines this history in France and Germany around 1800 with reference to the philosophical and literary functionalizations of negation. In this, the blind individual figures as a counter-pole to visual enlightenment, an instantiation of the hierarchy of the senses, an idealistic metaphor for the process of negation, an embodiment of the sacralization of poetry, and finally as an exponent of a transitory form of seeing and of the optical unconscious, as represented by photograph negativity around 1900.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110921106
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63034-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092110-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: De la maladie à l'écriture

Book 2004

De la maladie à l'écriture

Genèse de la mélancolie romantique

Laurent Cantagrel

Volume 33 in this series

The study sets out to examine how the concept of melancholy evolved from its usage in medical discourse to its usage in literature. How can we explain the fact that a term referring to a pathological condition close to madness and marked by extreme introversion and distraction should have become a key concept characterizing the expressive condition of the Romantic writer? Stripping away the modern usages of the term, the study adopts a rigorously historical perspective and analyzes a number of texts that cast a revealing light on the articulation of a philosophical and poetic purchase on the concept of melancholy and its pathological semantics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922400
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63033-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092240-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Erzähltes Theater

Book 2004

Erzähltes Theater

Szenische Illusionen im europäischen Roman des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts

Markus Raith

Volume 32 in this series

Exceptionally, perhaps, the study does not concentrate on the role of the theatre in the (German) bildungsroman. Instead, a comparative perspective is chosen to elucidate how and why European novelists talk about the theatre. Poetological considerations, such as the function of the theatre for the organization of the narrative, are given just as much attention as issues connected with the history and theory of aesthetic experience in modernism. In short, the concern is to examine the literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries in terms of the history of art, society, and the media. As such, the study is a perusal of perception mechanisms that have remained with us to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922417
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63032-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092241-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Hermeneutik literarischer Sinnlichkeit

Book 2003

Hermeneutik literarischer Sinnlichkeit

Historisch-systematische Studien zur Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

Lothar van Laak

Volume 31 in this series

The positive revaluation of aesthesis and the emergence of aesthetics in the 18th century - from Bodmer and Breitinger to Baumgarten, Meier and ultimately Herder - established an aesthetic discourse centred on the sensual component of art and literature. In literature, this component is to be found in its visual imagery, its rhythms and also in its appreciation as a meaningful structure. The volume contains studies on Gryphius, Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, Herder and Schiller. It systematizes the insights gained from these studies to demonstrate how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, aesthetic experience was enriched by a theoretical concern for its sensual aspects and conceptualized in a manner that is of essential importance for approaches to the interpretation of art and for hermeneutics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953480
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63031-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095348-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das Archiv der Klugheit

Book 2002

Das Archiv der Klugheit

Strategien des Wissens um 1700

Leander Scholz

Volume 30 in this series

The study defines the locus of early bourgeois wisdom within the history of the encyclopedic expansion of knowledge triggered by the invention of printing. It interprets the use made of that wisdom as a response to the crisis of the 'polyhistor' ideal. As an instrument for a selection of knowledge geared to the criterion of social utility, it challenged the privileged position of the universities in the quest for truth and brought about a shift of emphasis toward everyday communication as a medium for the achievement of knowledge. In so doing, it produced a political type of scholar acting as an expert observer of this new dissemination and circulation of knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953497
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63030-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095349-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Weimaraner Weltbewohner

Book 2002

Weimaraner Weltbewohner

Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff >Weltliteratur<

Manfred Koch

Volume 29 in this series

Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur ('world literature') made its first appearance in his periodical »Über Kunst und Altertum« and displays three dimensions: historical diagnosis, moral injunction, a classicistic poetics of modernism. This book attempts to do justice to the wide-ranging implications of the concept by exploring two different avenues in the history of ideas. The first part examines 18th century theoretical debates on cultural difference and the formation of a global society (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Herder, Humboldt). The second traces the evolution of Goethe's program for a 'world literature' from the age of the French Revolution to the last decade of his life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953503
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63029-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095350-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Vor der Literatur

Book 2001

Vor der Literatur

Eine Evolutionstheorie der Poetik Alteuropas

Ingo Stöckmann

Volume 28 in this series

Up to now, the marriage between literary studies and sociological systems theory has been exclusively consummated on modern literature since 1800. This study is the first to adapt systems theory to the entirely different structures of poetology in pre-modern Europe (1600-1750). Central to the approach is the hypothesis that although the differentiation of the modern literary system has so far largely been described as an >event<, it should in fact be regarded both semantically and temporally as a very broad long-term process. Among other things, the study traces the conversions undergone by crucial poetological concepts, placing special emphasis on the central role of media in disseminating and developing poetological knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953510
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63028-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095351-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Stellenlektüre Stifter - Foucault

Book 2001

Stellenlektüre Stifter - Foucault

Axel Fliethmann

Volume 27 in this series

Can we clearly and strictly distinguish a literary text from a scholarly text? Can we neatly divide off the basic operations of literary studies (reading/writing) from the basic operations of literature (reading/writing)? What impact does literature have on the way it is described (and vice versa)? »Passagework« takes two central reading procedures (passage and analogy), which are as evident in scholarly disciplines as they are consistently passed over in silence there, to show how reading theoretical writings can turn into literature and vice versa. A study of Adalbert Stifter's »Nachsommer« and Michel Foucault's »Order of Things« demonstrates how discourses can turn into gardens and clouds into theories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953527
ISBN:: 9783110953527
ISBN:: 9783484630277
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Selbstliebe und Geselligkeit

Book 2001

Selbstliebe und Geselligkeit

Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von naturrechtlichem Denken und moraldidaktischer Literatur im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Friedrich Vollhardt

Volume 26 in this series

In the decades around 1700 profane natural law developed an impact that can hardly be overestimated. Initially most clearly observable in the domain of practical philosophy, it ultimately spread far beyond this to make itself felt in areas as diverse as the theory of absolute rule and manuals for correct behaviour in everyday situations. The study shows how a social ethics and theory of duty based on natural law left its mark on various genres of moralist literature (moralist journals, satire, didactic literature, novels) between 1670 and 1770.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953534
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63026-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095353-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Literaturtransfer in der Frühen Neuzeit

Book 2001

Literaturtransfer in der Frühen Neuzeit

Francisco López de Ubedas 'La Pícara Justina' und ihre italienische und englische Bearbeitung von Barezzo Barezzi und Captain John Stevens

Thomas Bodenmüller

Volume 25 in this series

Despite its stylistic oddities and idiosyncrasies Francisco López de Ubeda's »Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina« (1605) was translated into several languages. The study interprets the romance for the first time from the carnivalesque perspective (Bakhtin) and analyzes the adaptations by Barezzo Barezzi and Captain John Stevens against the background of the contemporary interest in Spain found in Italy and England. With reference to Barezzi's and Stevens' translations, the study explores the sociological question of the target audience aimed at by these influential intermediaries of Spanish literature abroad and the history of the impact they achieved with their efforts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933949
ISBN:: 9783110933949
ISBN:: 9783484630253
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das Streben nach Wissen

Book 2000

Das Streben nach Wissen

Eine vergleichende Gattungsgeschichte der populären Enzyklopädie in Deutschland und Großbritannien im 19. Jahrhundert

Ulrike Spree

Volume 24 in this series

The form and function of popular encyclopedias went through very considerable changes in the 19th century. The study outlines the emergence of the general reference work as a genre in its own right and its differentiation into various types (Konversationslexikon, popular encyclopedia, specialized dictionary). The comparison of encyclopedia production in Germany and Britain, which is notable for a variety of reciprocal reception processes, clearly shows up the frequently non-synchronic stages in the process of change undergone by the genre, e.g. the increasing significance of these works as sources of information and reference as opposed to an educational tool.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933956
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63024-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093395-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Literarischer Ästhetizismus

Book 2000

Literarischer Ästhetizismus

Theorie der arabesken und hermetischen Kommunikation der Moderne

Annette Simonis

Volume 23 in this series

Examining the mutual relationship between literature and the visual arts in the Fin de siècle the study explores the literary adaptation of ornamental style and the emergence of a specifically modern type of hermetic communication. Abundant intertextual references and allusions contribute to the suggestiveness and subtlety of aestheticist literature, which fascinated modern readers like Simmel, Cassirer and Adorno. Thus, in contrast to a common prejudice against aestheticism, its enthusiastic reception among modern cultural theorists reveals the lasting interest of Fin de siècle poetics in the 20th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933963
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63023-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093396-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Umkehr der Sinneshierarchie

Book 2000

Umkehr der Sinneshierarchie

Herder und die Aufwertung des Tastsinns seit der Frühen Neuzeit

Ulrike Zeuch

Volume 22 in this series

This volume examines the reasons for Herder's foregrounding of the sense of touch. As such it fills in a significant research gap. Changes in the theory of perception since the early modern age are the constitutive factor involved. They led both to an upending of the hierarchy of the senses and to a leveling of the distinctions between sensus communis, body, sense of touch, and emotion. This casts light on inconsistencies in Herder's conception of the sense of touch that cannot be explained by looking at his works or his systematic thinking alone. The upending of the hierarchy of the senses is of cardinal significance for aesthetics and hermeneutics, as is demonstrated here with reference to the discussion on the definition of human beauty since the 16th century and in the literature around 1800.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936315
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63022-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093631-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mnemographie

Book 1999

Mnemographie

Poetiken der Erinnerung und Destruktion nach Walter Benjamin

Nicolas Pethes

Volume 21 in this series

Walter Benjamin's work is central to the debate on the crisis of remembrance in modern aesthetics. The study shows how, although Benjamin's poetics of remembrance is couched in terms of the traditional constellation of memory and writing, it increasingly turns against constructive actualizations. The first analysis of the author's entire literary oeuvre from this point of view traces the development of his »poetics of de-struction« as reflected by intertextuality and the rejection of autobiographic reading. The 'unwritability' of the »Passagen« documents a non-conclusive form of commemoration as the only adequate response to the task of representing the silent memory of the mute victims of history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936322
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63021-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093632-2
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Von den Möglichkeiten einer ›inneren‹ Geschichte des Lesens

Book 1999

Von den Möglichkeiten einer ›inneren‹ Geschichte des Lesens

Matthias Bickenbach

Volume 20 in this series

"Is reading historical?" The question is anything but anodyne. The answer is bound up with lead notions about changes in the communication media. In contrast to universal models and the tendency to trace the course taken by the history of reading to external conditions, 'internal' history sees reading as a medium with its own intrinsic resistances. It shows how, as cultural change in the communication media proceeds, reading techniques enter into certain alliances, and further pinpoints the functions operative in giving those techniques preference over other possibilities. The art of reading is a historical matter. But there is an identifiable model. It dates from the year 1735.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936339
ISBN:: 9783110936339
ISBN:: 9783484630208
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Media and Press
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: La lyre, la plume et le temps

Book 1998

La lyre, la plume et le temps

Figures de musiciens dans le >Bildungsroman<

Aude Locatelli

Volume 19 in this series

This comparison of 10 Bildungsromane (novels of formation) in German and French from the mid 19th century to the present is motivated by a dual interest. It sets out both to investigate the relations between literature and music and to elucidate the concept of Bildung. The study examines works such as George Sand's "Consuelo", Romain Rolland's "Jean-Christophe", Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus" and Thomas Bernhard's "Der Untergeher" with a view to delineating and providing a synthesis of the evolution and specific features of the 'musical Bildungsroman', notably pointing up the analogies between musical and literary structures discernible in them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932447
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63019-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093244-7
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Music, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Genetisches Prinzip

Book 1998

Genetisches Prinzip

Zur Struktur der Kulturgeschichte bei Jacob Burckhardt, Georg Lukács, Ernst Robert Curtius und Walter Benjamin

Linda Simonis

Volume 18 in this series

Drawing on texts of cultural and literary history from the 19th and 20th centuries the study describes the change of our concept of history after the age of historicism. It depicts how the authors gradually distance themselves from the idea of history as a unity in which genesis and genealogy intertwine. The works of J. Burckhardt, G. Lukács, E. R. Curtius and W. Benjamin represent different forms of this idea which is also expressed in their analyses, approaches and the rhetoric of their texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110916300
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63018-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091630-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Literarische Gruppenbildung

Book 1998

Literarische Gruppenbildung

Am Beispiel des George-Kreises 1890–1945

Rainer Kolk

Volume 17 in this series

The circle of like-minded litterati that formed around the poet Stefan George (1868-1933) at the turn of the century represented one of the most outspoken and controversial responses to what at the time was widely seen as the 'crisis' of modernism. The lifestyle it propagated, a mixture of the aesthetic and the heroic, embodied an alternative not only to traditional social forms prevalent during the German Empire but also to established patterns of interpreting art and history. With its thoroughgoing synoptic view of the history of literature and the history of science, the study inquires into the program underlying the cohesion of this literary coterie and the resonances it set up in various sectors of society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110916317
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63017-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091631-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 1998

Chinesia

The European Construction of China in the Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Adrian Hsia

Volume 16 in this series

Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid previous repetition of stereotypes and prejudices, the present study re-examines the parameters which created Chinesia and traces its development to the end of the 18th century. The literary study begins with the analysis of European dramatization of the Manchu Conquest of China and its subsequent fictional Christianization. Then the Jesuit plays with Chinese themes are discussed, for the first time in literary history. Also analyzed is the reception of the Chinese Orphan motive in European literature which was the turning point in downgrading China, and subsequently Montesquieu's impact on Albrecht von Haller's novel "Usong" is examined. Thereafter, the study scrutinizes the contradictory positions of Herder and von Seckendorff (or Goethe, for that matter) in Weimar. The book concludes with a concise analysis of the 'eschatological sinism' of Hegel, Marx and Weber to indicate the development of the later centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914894
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63016-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091489-4
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Ästhetischer Katholizismus

Book 1997

Ästhetischer Katholizismus

Stefan Georges Rituale der Literatur

Wolfgang Braungart

Volume 15 in this series

The social power of rituals is a function of their aesthetic fascination; the one is unimaginable without the other. In modern German literature, Stefan George's works (1868-1933) represent the most significant and consistent case of a ritualistic aesthetic. Indeed, the indissoluble unity between George's work and his life can be reconstructed in terms of the category of ritual. George's entire oeuvre is something akin to one huge transition ritual opening up German lyric poetry to the traditions of aestheticism and symbolism. His literary rituals proved their cohesive potency early on in connection with the master/disciple nature of his famous "Circle". They were of decisive importance for the major impact that George had on literature, politics and academe in Germany, an impact that has only just begun to be fully appreciated and examined.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933550
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63015-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093355-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Revolution als "Geschichte": Alfred Döblins »November 1918«

Book 1997

Revolution als "Geschichte": Alfred Döblins »November 1918«

Eine programmatische Lektüre des historischen Romans

Anne Kuhlmann

Volume 14 in this series

Revolutions are not only a fascinating political and historical phenomenon. The perception and description of revolutions also conform to a certain linguistic and literary pattern discernible both in historiography and political journalism. Historical novels centring around revolutions can (also) be read as a form of (political) historiography as they invariably engage with these forms of representation. At the same time, however, historical novels are literary texts and as such cast light on the linguistic nature of historical (re)construction. A literary approach to the epic depiction of revolution in "November 1918" lays bare these contradictory reception alternatives, and in so doing points up the connections between Döblin's presentation of the German November revolution of 1918 and national and international 'revolution (hi)stories' from a large variety of disciplines.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110929447
ISBN:: 9783484630147
ISBN:: 9783110929447
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Postavantgardistische Ästhetik

Book 1996

Postavantgardistische Ästhetik

Positionen der französischen und italienischen Gegenwartsliteratur

Andreas Gelz

Volume 13 in this series

The study examines texts by Julia Kristeva, Philippe Sollers, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Roland Barthes, stemming largely from the 80s and 90s, with a view to essaying a tour d'horizon of an important transitional period in present-day literature against the background of system-theoretical considerations. It transpires that the apparent paradoxicality of the concept 'post-avantgarde' is a constitutional element in the self-reflection and self-description of a number of authors long established as major representatives of avant-garde groups such as Tel Quel, Nouveau Roman and Oulipo. The (self-)observations of these authors have a number of things in common. Their reflections on the historical limits of a-historical, formalist and self-referential theory-formation and the narrative practice associated with it, and the all-pervading preoccupation with the evolution of literary forms are crucial elements in their quest for an aesthetic program. This engagement with the historicity of literary forms is both a common denominator and a contribution of genuine originality, extending to a philosophical concern with the theory of the subject.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942613
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63013-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094261-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bibliographie zur europäischen und amerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik im deutschen Sprachraum

Book 1996

Bibliographie zur europäischen und amerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik im deutschen Sprachraum

Sekundärliteratur 1945–1988

Lothar Jordan

Volume 12 in this series

This volume is designed as an aid to research into international connections in the poetry of the present day. It covers the scholarly studies published between 1945 and 1988 pertaining to the reception (in the broadest sense of the term) accorded in German-speaking areas to poetry written in other European languages, with special reference to the relation between this body of poetry and poetry in German. New is the broad range of languages (approx. 35) from Eastern and Western Europe and the Americas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942620
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63012-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094262-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der Dialog im Spannungsfeld von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit

Book 1996

Der Dialog im Spannungsfeld von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit

Gabriele Kalmbach

Volume 11 in this series

Towards the end of the 18th century there was a veritable boom in the production of novels in dialogue form. Whereas, however, the comparable genre of the epistolary novel centres around the letter and thus remains anchored in the medium of writing, dialogue stands at the interface between the written and the oral. The upshot of this is that 'dialogue novels' have not been regarded as a genre in their own right but discussed rather in terms of changing communicative parameters in the context of the evolution of writing, printing, literacy and reading. On the basis of a poetological discussion of the central idea of Vergegenwärtigung ('actualization'), the present study begins by outlining the theory and programmatic conception of dialogue as 'invented orality', proceeding from there to examine its relevance for the educational tenets of the period and then engaging in analyses of dialogue novels by Wezel and popular authors of the late Enlightenment, Klinger, Wieland, de Sade, Diderot, and Rousseau, pointing up in each instance the specific use made of dialogue as a literary technique.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942637
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63011-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094263-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Nationale Grenzen und internationaler Austausch

Book 1995

Nationale Grenzen und internationaler Austausch

Studien zum Kultur- und Wissenschaftstransfer in Europa

Lothar Jordan, Bernd Kortländer

Volume 10 in this series

The volume assembles the papers held at a symposium organised by the Heinrich Heine Institute (Düsseldorf), 20-22 October 1992, in cooperation with the Equipe Transferts Culturels of the CNRS (Paris) and the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico (Trent). They deal with the processes of cross-frontier cultural and scientific transfer from the 18th to the 20th century (with special emphasis on the 19th century). The scope of the treatment ranges from individual cases to broader overviews. The approach is not only international but also interdisciplinary, ranging from literature to historiography and the history of scientific institutions and branches of science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942644
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63010-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094264-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Les Desarrois du Moi

Book 1995

Les Desarrois du Moi

»A la recherche du temps perdu« de M. Proust et »Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften« de R. Musil

Florence Godeau

Volume 9 in this series

This study employs methodological tools of a specifically literary nature to determine how in Proust and Musil a realisation of the late 19th century 'crisis of the subject' is dovetailed with a form of 'critical fiction' where the hero is at one and the same time a commentator 'at one remove' from the events he describes. An analytic lecture croisée of two of the major works signalling the advent of modernity is combined with close comparisons with other novels (Flaubert, Dickens, Th. Mann, J. Roth, Svevo etc.). It transpires that the underlying dynamic informing these apparently very different works in fact reflects identical aesthetic concerns on the part of the authors: the various forms of 'disarray' evidenced by the protagonist are in fact the point of departure for a new concept of the novel where the interaction between narrator, central figure and reader plays an essential role.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110942651
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63009-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094265-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Europäische und nordamerikanische Gegenwartslyrik im deutschen und amerikanischen Sprachraum 1920–1970

Book 1994

Europäische und nordamerikanische Gegenwartslyrik im deutschen und amerikanischen Sprachraum 1920–1970

Studien zu ihrer Vermittlung und Wirkung

Lothar Jordan

Volume 8 in this series

Die hier vorgelegten Studien zielen darauf ab, komparatistische Vorarbeiten zu einer Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik im 20. Jahrhundert zu leisten, möglicherweise auch einer internationalen Geschichte der modernen Lyrik den Weg zu bereiten, indem sie das Verhältnis zwischen nationalen Traditionen und internationalen Einflüssen in der Geschichte der neuesten deutschen Lyrik untersuchen. Vermittlung und Rezeption der französischen und nordamerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik seit 1920 stehen im Zentrum des Interesses, doch werden weitere Poesien mitberücksichtigt. Dabei werden am Beispiel wichtiger ausländischer Dichter wie Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.C. Williams, F. O'Hara sowie die Surrealisten u.a. die im deutschen Sprachraum für die moderne Lyrik verzögerten Möglichkeiten der Vielfalt studiert.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944044
ISBN:: 9783110944044
ISBN:: 9783484630086
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Diskurswandel im Werk Carl Einsteins

Book 1994

Diskurswandel im Werk Carl Einsteins

Ein Beitrag zur Theorie und Geschichte der europäischen Avantgarde

Klaus H. Kiefer

Volume 7 in this series

In seiner singulären Weise, künstlerische und theoretische Diskurse zu initiieren, zu transformieren und mit politischer Praxis zu verbinden, braucht Carl Einstein (1885-1940) den Vergleich mit den großen kritischen Geistern unseres Jahrhunderts nicht zu scheuen. Stets "weit an der Spitze" (Gottfried Benn) der europäischen Avantgarde, ob sie nun Expressionismus, Kubismus, Dada oder Surrealismus heißen mochte, vermittelt er zwischen den Künsten, Nationen und Kulturen. Sein literarisches Frühwerk "Bebuquin oder die Dilettanten des Wunders" (1906-1909) kann als kubistische Prosa avant la lettre verstanden werden. Seine "Negerplastik" (1915) begründet eine Theorie primitiver Kunst. Ethnologie und Psychoanalyse münden in Einsteins surrealistische Ästhetik, die 1934 unter dem Titel "George Braque" erscheint. Weltwirtschaftskrise und nationalsozialistische Machtergreifung ruinieren den freien Schriftsteller, der nach dem großen Erfolg seiner "Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts" (1931 in 3. Auflage) in Deutschland 'halb' in Vergessenheit geriet (Helmut Heißenbüttel). Seine "kometarische" Laufbahn (Franz Blei) wird erst heute, aus dem Blickwinkel der Postmoderne, überschaubar und verständlich.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944051
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63007-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094405-1
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture and Design, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Poetische Ausbildung und dichterisches Handeln

Book 1993

Poetische Ausbildung und dichterisches Handeln

Poetik und autobiographisches Schreiben im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert

Kerstin Stüssel

Volume 6 in this series

Ein Gang durch die Kompendien der Poetik und Ästhetik erinnert zunächst an die Debatte um Lehr- und Lernbarkeit des poetischen Schreibens; in ihr manifestiert sich die Entstehung des modernen Literatursystems: Angesichts des Funktionsverlusts poetischer Regeln, Muster und Nachahmungsimperative konstituiert sich poetische Ausbildung und dichterisches Handeln schließlich im autobiographischen Schreiben. Lernen, genial sich selbst statt anderen zu folgen, lernen, Texte auf Lebensläufe zu beziehen, und lernen, durch autobiographische Kommentierung Textkontrolle und 'Überleben' bei der Nachwelt anzustreben: dies sind die Lehren jener Dichterautobiographien, die das 18. Jahrhundert hervorbringt, da Texte nicht mehr als gelehrte Handlungen gelesen werden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940077
ISBN:: 9783110940077
ISBN:: 9783484630062
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der realistische Weg

Book 1994

Der realistische Weg

Formen pragmatischen Erzählens bei Balzac, Dickens, Hardy, Keller, Raabe und anderen Autoren des 19. Jahrhunderts

Hans Vilmar Geppert

Volume 5 in this series

In Einzeluntersuchungen, Längs- und Querschnitten entsteht ein für die deutsche, englische und französische Literatur tragfähiger Begriff des literarischen Realismus im 19. Jahrhundert. Neben den genannten Autoren werden ausführlich auch Flaubert, George Eliot und Fontane einbezogen. Abgrenzungen ergeben sich einerseits etwa zu Goethe, andererseits v.a. zu Zola und zur literarischen Moderne. Der theoretische Teil der Untersuchung ist an der pragmatischen Erkenntnistheorie orientiert, die in vielen Traditionen 'von Kant zu Peirce' führt und deren zentrale Begriffe sich als literarisch fruchtbar erweisen. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht eine Interpretation des "Grünen Heinrich" in vergleichender Perspektive; den immer neuen Erzählstrukturen und Wirklichkeitsentwürfen, die Keller für seine Geschichte erprobte, lassen sich jeweils Beispiele aus der europäischen Literatur zuordnen: von K. Ph. Moritz über den jungen Flaubert, Charlotte Brontë, die Goncourt und andere, bis zu Joyce und Proust. Die Untersuchung arbeitet eng an den Texten und enthält insbesondere in den mehr theoretischen Teilen viele anschauliche Beispiele. Alle Kapitel sind so geschrieben, daß sie jeweils auch für sich gelesen werden können.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940084
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63005-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094008-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Masse als Erzählproblem

Book 1993

Die Masse als Erzählproblem

Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Carl Sternheims »Europa« und Franz Jungs »Proletarier«

Annette Graczyk

Volume 4 in this series

Die Untersuchung schließt eine Forschungslücke, indem sie das Problemfeld der literarischen Masse mit ihren sozialen, politischen, kulturgeschichtlichen und massenpsychologischen Implikationen absteckt und bestimmt, eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme der bisherigen Forschungen vornimmt und das besondere Gestaltungsproblem der 'erzählten Masse' entwickelt und an Textbeispielen konkretisiert. Hoffmann, Poe, Hugo, Vigny, Dickens, Zola markieren wichtige Stationen auf dem Weg zu einer rhythmisch dynamisierten Massengestaltung, die in den avancierten Schreibverfahren der literarischen Moderne nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelt wird. In Detailinterpretationen werden die verschiedenartigen Erzählstrategien der Massendarstellung von Sternheim und Jung analysiert.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963526
ISBN:: 9783110963526
ISBN:: 9783484630048
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Fiktion und Vieldeutigkeit

Book 1993

Fiktion und Vieldeutigkeit

Zur Entstehung moderner Kulturtechniken des Lesens im 18. Jahrhundert

Christian Berthold

Volume 3 in this series

Die einzigen Begriffe, mit denen die Literaturwissenschaft zur Zeit hoffen kann, ihren Gegenstand - 'Literatur' - abzugrenzen, dürften Fiktion und Vieldeutigkeit sein. Diesen Begriffen wird hier in einer kulturhistorischen Rekonstruktion nachgegangen: vorwiegend anhand des Verhältnisses zwischen Romanen und ihren Lesern im 18. Jahrhundert. Die historische Rekonstruktion eröffnet dabei Ausblicke auf eine theoretische Schärfung der beiden Begriffe, die im systematischen Entwurf bisher nicht zu gelingen scheint. In der Verfolgung zunächst streng literaturwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen zeigen sich zentrale Aspekte der Kulturtechnik Lesen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963533
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63003-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096353-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Media and Press
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Geschichtengeneratoren

Book 1992

Geschichtengeneratoren

Lektüren zur Poetik des historischen Romans

Gerhard Kebbel

Volume 2 in this series

Die vorliegenden Lektüren paradigmatischer historischer Romane von Walter Scott, Berthold Brecht und Thomas Pynchon untersuchen die konkrete Form der Verarbeitung von Geschichte in Fiktion. In Anwendung der Theorie der 'Aufschreibesysteme' von F.A. Kittler wird dabei nach der jeweiligen Umsetzung der polaren Organisationsformen Übersetzung und Medientransposition in diesen klassischen, modernen und postmodernen Romanformen gefragt. Ziel der Lektüren ist jeweils die Bestimmung einer Textpoetik, die in der Metapher des Geschichtengenerators formuliert wird.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963540
ISBN:: 9783110963540
ISBN:: 9783484630024
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Sprache der Verstellung

Book 1992

Die Sprache der Verstellung

Studien zum rhetorischen und anthropologischen Wissen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Ursula Geitner

Volume 1 in this series

Am Leitfaden einer Geschichte von 'Verstellung' und 'Verstellungskunst' markiert die Untersuchung denjenigen historischen Umbauprozeß, in welchem die überkommenen rhetorisch-politischen Interaktions- und Kommunikationsformulare durch die aufklärerischen Ausdrucks- und Verstehenskonzepte ersetzt werden. Katalysator dieses Prozesses ist ein sich spätestens seit den 1720er Jahren etablierendes anthropologisches Wissen, das den Menschen und seinen Ausdruck in direkter Absetzung von der persona und ihrer actio konzipiert. Von dem kritischen Zugriff des modernen anthropologischen Wissens auf eine nun als vormodern verstandene rhetorische Tradition distanziert sich die Untersuchung. Mit Hilfe der Vorgaben von Begriffsgeschichte und historischer Semantik, strukturalistischer Sprach- und poststrukturalistischer Schrifttheorie sowie systemtheoretischer Analysen zum Verhältnis von Bewußtsein und Kommunikation gelingt es, die rhetorischen Beschreibungen kommunikativer Prozesse neu zur Geltung zu bringen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963557
ISBN:: 978-3-484-63001-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096355-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

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