A history of poetics German scholarly aesthetics and poetics in international context, 1770-1960

470 Pages·2010·2.05 MB·English

by  Hill-Zenk, Anja, Richter, Sandra

Sandra Richter
A History of Poetics

Sandra Richter
A History of Poetics
German Scholary Aesthetics and Poetics
in International Context, 1770-1960
With Bibliogaphies by
Anja Zenk · Jasmin Azazmah
Eva Jost · Sandra Richter
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Preface
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A history of poetics, a device for orientation I know not.1
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8 Poetics has always been a key to the history and systematic order of the
9 humanities: the renaissance ‘poeta doctus’ proved his scholarly knowl-
10 edge and stylistic competence by writing a poetological treatise. In
11 the 19th century, poetics was seen as the core area of the humanities –
12 as the ‘logic’ of the humanities. Nevertheless, we know astonishingly
13 little about the different national histories of poetics; even less can be
14 said about international developments and exchanges. Wilhelm Scherer
15 is still correct when he states that a history of poetics is lacking.
16 These deficiencies originate from the conflicting nature of poetics
17 itself: on the one hand, poetics participates in the general history and
18 theory of science and the humanities but is neglected to a large extent
19 by these fields of study. The reason is simple: poetics deals with poetry
20 –andnotwiththe‘hardsciences’.Ontheotherhand,poeticsiscloseto
21 the study of literature, to criticism and its history. But critique tends to
22 focus on its ‘beautiful object’ and to ignore its own history, especially
23 after the end of ‘great theory’ in the final decade of the 20th century.
24 Facing so many difficulties, this study on German poetics in its interna-
25 tionalcontext cannot beanything butanexpedition intouncharted ter-
26 ritory. Only a few islands, the aesthetics of the ‘big thinkers’ of course,
27 are well studied.
28 This study can build on this research but is designed to discover the
29 lesser known texts. In order to do so, the study will focus on scholarly,
30 ambitious aesthetics and poetics up until the point at which poetics be-
31 comediscreditedinthe1960s.Bythen,poetologicalthinkingtendedto
32 regardworkspublishedunderthetitleof‘poetics’asnotbeingscientific
33 enoughandpreferredtheterm‘literarytheory’instead.Literarytheories
34 from the 1960s to the present day are examined and presented by the
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1 WilhelmScherer:Poetik[1888].MiteinerEinleitungundMaterialienzurRe-
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zeptionsanalyse. Ed. Gunter Reiss. Tübingen: Niemeyer (dtv) 1977, p. 29:
39 “Eine Geschichte der Poetik, ein Hilfsmittel zur Orientierung kenne ich
40 nicht.”
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1 Centre of Literary Theory at the University of Göttingen (director: Si-
2 mone Winko; http://www.simonewinko.de/arbeitsstelle.html).
3 Furthermore, this study will only occasionally consider didactical
4 school poetics or literary poetics. School poetics will be dealt with in
5 aseparatestudybyAnjaZenkwhowasamemberofmyEmmyNoeth-
6 er research group on ‘Poetological Reflection. Poetics and Poetological
7 Lyric Poetry in Aesthetic Context’ from which the findings presented
8 here result. Literary poetics were studied in other publications of the
9 group:
10 By myself:
11 - (published under my maiden name Sandra Pott) Poetiken. Poetolo-
12 gische Lyrik, Poetik und Ästhetik von Novalis bis Rilke. Berlin,
13 New York: de Gruyter 2004.
14 - (published under my maiden name Sandra Pott) Poetics of the Pic-
15 ture. August Wilhelm Schlegel and Achim von Arnim, in: The
16 Image of Words. Literary Transpositions of Pictorial Ideas, ed. by
17 Rüdiger Görner. Munich: Iudicium 2005 (Institute of Germanic
18 Studies X), pp.76(cid:2)90.
19 - (published under my maiden name Sandra Pott) Poetologische Re-
20 flexion. “Lyrik” in poetologischer Lyrik, Poetik und Ästhetik
21 (19.Jahrhundert),in:Lyrikim19.Jahrhundert.HistorischeGattung-
22 spoetikalsReflexionsmediumeinerkulturwissenschaftlichenGerma-
23 nistik, eds. Steffen Martus, Stefan Scherer, Claudia Stockinger. Bern:
24 Lang 2005 (Publikationen zur Zeitschrift für Germanistik NF 11),
25 pp.31(cid:2)60.
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- Lyrik im Ausgang aus der Stummfilmzeit: Claire Golls Lyrische Films
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(1922). In: Literatur intermedial, eds. Wolf Gerhard Schmidt, Thor-
28 ACHTUNGTRENNUNGsten Valk. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2009 (Spectrum Literatur-
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wissenschaft 19), pp.67(cid:2)86.
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ByGunillaEschenbach:ImitationundParodie.PoetologischeLyrik
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und Poetik im George-Kreis (submitted with Hamburg University).
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By Eva Jost: Dichtung als Sensation. Die populäre Moderne: Otto
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Julius Bierbaum.
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Somepartsof thispublicationarefurtherdevelopedinthefollowing
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contributions and articles by myself:
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37 - (published under my maiden name Sandra Pott) Von der Erfindung
38 und den Grenzen des Schaffens. Fallstudien zur Inventio-Lehre in
39 Poetik und Ästhetik, in: Imagination und Invention, Paragrana 2
40 (2006), eds. Toni Bernhart, Philipp Mehne, pp.217(cid:2)242.
Ahistory of poetics, a device for orientation I know not. IX
1 - (published under my maiden name Sandra Pott) International, natio-
2 nale und transnationale Poetik: Hugh Blair auf dem Kontinent und
3 einige Bemerkungen über den Transfer poetologischen Wissens seit
4 1790, in: Triangulärer Transfer: Großbritannien, Frankreich und
5 Deutschland um 1800, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 56/
6 1 (2006), eds. Sandra Pott, Sebastian Neumeister, pp.99(cid:2)114.
7 - Unsichere Schönheit. Der Ursprung der Ästhetik aus der Kritik des
8 Skeptizismus. In: Unsicheres Wissen. Skeptizismus und Wahrschein-
9 lichkeit, 1550–1850, eds. Carlos Spoerhase, Dirk Werle, Markus
10 Wild. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2009 (Historia Hermeneutica
11 7), pp.159(cid:2)178.
12 - Anschaulichkeit versus Sprachlichkeit. Ein paradigmatischer Schein-
13 gegensatz in Ästhetik und Poetik (ca.1850 bis 1950), in: Die Künste
14 und ihre Wissenschaften im 19.Jahrhundert, eds. Oliver Huck, San-
15 dra Richter, Christian Scholl. Hildesheim (forthcoming).
16 - (with Hans-Harald Müller) Nationale Philologien – europäische
17 Zeitschriften. Zur Rezeption von Poetik und Literaturtheorie in
18 den wissenschaftlichen und literaturkritischen Zeitschriften zwischen
19 1880 und 1930, to be published in the papers of the conference on
20 European Philologies, VW-Foundation. Osnabrück University,
21 April 2007 (forthcoming).
22 - Wie kam das Bild in die Lyriktheorie? Präliminarien zu einer visuel-
23 ACHTUNGTRENNUNGlen Theorie der Lyrik, in: Das lyrische Bild, eds. Nina Herres, Cson-
24 gor Lörincz, Ralf Simon. Munich 2008 (forthcoming).
25 For the generous support and funding the group has received in the
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Emmy Noether programme, I wish to thank the German Research
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Foundation. During the years of research necessary for a study like
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this the junior research group was hosted by various institutions: by
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Hamburg University (Institute of German Studies II), King’s College
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London (German Department) and Stuttgart University (Modern Ger-
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man Literature I). We wish to thank all three Universities for their hos-
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pitality. Many colleagues are responsible for the warm welcome and the
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fruitful time that the group spent in Hamburg, London and Stuttgart. I
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can only name a few of them: Jörg Schönert did his utmost to support
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and help the group intellectually as well as administratively. Peter Hühn
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was a corner-stone for the integration of any English content. Hans-
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Harald Müller, whose principal field of research is on empirical poetics
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around1900,becameanintellectualcounterpartforthegroup.Thecol-
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leaguesandfriendsfromtheresearchgroup‘Narratology’attheUniver-
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