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Wilhelm Kosch, Wolfgang Achnitz, Lutz Hagestedt, Mario Muller, Claus-Michael Ort, …
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The thirteen papers in this volume span the period from the Early
Enlightenment to the end of Romanticism and reconstruct the system
of literature and thought of what is known as a ~The Age of Goethea
(TM) from approx. 1770 to 1830. On the basis of a comprehensive
corpus of texts from German literature, the papers illuminate not
only their pre-conditions from the European Enlightenment but also
the relations between literature and the theoretical discourses of
(popular) philosophy, theology, medicine, anthropology and
jurisprudence.
Careful analysis of school dramas and poetological texts by
Christian Weise (1642-1708) reveals the crisis of emblematic
argumentation figures and a semantics based on similarity and
circularity. At the same time, Weise's attempts to move away from
self-reference to difference are confronted with a change from the
theatre to the printed book. Both these phenomena open up a
problematic constellation that not only left its mark on late 17th
century school drama but also occasioned a thoroughgoing
reconsideration of the didactic ambitions and epistemological
rhetoric of dramatic literature in the period between Baroque and
the Enlightenment.
"Sign and Time" identifies crucial components of the 19th century
conception of realism and reconstructs their interplay in narrative
texts written between 1840 and 1910. Selective analyses of texts by
Storm, Fontane etc. are undertaken with a view to highlighting what
they have to tell us about the history of discourse(s).
Semiologically, realism is notable for the way it plays off the
linguistic against the graphic, metonymy against metaphor, and
rails against the hazards of visual kinds of imagination. This can
be interpreted as a response to the increasing competition from
other media, more precisely as a species of literary
self-referentiality in the face of the advent of film and the
attendant awareness of the psychological and evocative limits
necessarily imposed on this kind of literature.
The Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon is one of the best known, most
comprehensive and most reliable reference works on German
literature. Spanning the ages, the work encompasses writers from
all eras, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. Volume
28 contains, among other, articles on Walther von der Vogelweide,
Fred and Maxie Wander, Aby Warburg, Jakob Wassermann and Max Weber.
In line with the encyclopedia's broad definition of the term
literature, information is also included on numerous specialists in
their fields, e.g. conductor Bruno Walter and footballer Fritz
Walter.
Following the volumes ALiterature and CrimeA (1983, STSL 8) and
ACrime NarratedA (1991, STSL 27) the articles assembled here
examine discourses serving the social construction of deviation,
criminality, and justice/jurisdiction together with typical
constellations of the way these have been representeed by the
(mass) media in the 20th century. In addition, theoretical articles
on the connection between 'transgression' and 'order' on the basis
of recent research into the representation of crime and
crime-fighting institutions in Germany and the United States are
joined by contributions on the criminological, juridical, and
political discourses of the present to assist in placing the case
studies in their systematic and historical context.
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