A History of Poetics
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A History of Poetics

German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in International Context, 1770-1960

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A History of Poetics

German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in International Context, 1770-1960

About this book

Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a first history of poetics as well as with bibliographies of the subject. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetics and poetics of popular philosophy, of the Hegel-school, empirical and psychological tendencies in the field since the 1860s, the first steps towards a plurality of methods (1890–1930), theoretical confrontations during the Nazi-period as well as the rise of formalist and anthropological approaches from the 1930s onwards.

All approaches are evaluated regarding their relevance for academia as well as for the general history of education. If possible, international references and contexts of the relevant theories are taken into account. In sum, the analysis not only shows how differentiated historical accounts in the field were but also reflects how current literary theory could move forward through the rediscovery of sunken ideas.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9783110222449
eBook ISBN
9783110222456
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
German Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Poetics as Field of Knowledge
  4. 2. Text Types and Periods
  5. 3. Methodology
  6. 1. Eclectic Poetics: Popular Philosophy (1770 – 1790)
  7. 2. Transcendental Poetics and Beyond: Immanuel Kant’s Critical Successors (1790 – 1800)
  8. 3. Historical and Genetic Poetics: Johann Justus Herwig (1774), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1801 – 1803/1809 –1811) and Johann Gottfried Herder’s Heritage
  9. 4. Logostheological Poetics Beyond Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Friedrich Ast (1805), Joseph Loreye (1801/1802, 1820) and Johann Jakob Wagner (1839, 1840)
  10. 5. Post-Idealist Poetics
  11. 6. Pre-Empirical and Empirical Poetics since 1820
  12. 7. Comprehensive Poetics
  13. 8. Poetics and “Geisteswissenschaft”
  14. 9. The Turn Towards Language: Theodor A. Meyer (1901)
  15. 10. Phenomenological and Ontological Poetics: Edmund Husserl and Roman Ingarden (1931)
  16. 11. Anthropology, Existentialism and Hermeneutics: the Influence of Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger
  17. 12. The After-Life of the ‘Artwork of Language’ (“Sprachkunstwerk”)
  18. 13. Poetics under the Fascist Regime
  19. 14. New Approaches in a Reproductive Era
  20. 15. Conclusion: Tendencies, Trends and Sunken Ideas
  21. Backmatter