Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412002
Michael Lackner
In addition to his numerous commentaries on the Confucian classics and his treatises, the eminent Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi (1130–1200) also left a large number of statements on learning. These reflections were collected by later scholars of his school under the title “Master Zhu on Learning” (Zhuzi dushufa). This article is based on the original texts in “Master Zhu’s Collected Sayings” (Zhuzi yulei), an encyclopedic compilation of the master’s responses to questions from his students. Zhu Xi deals with the appropriate syllabus (“what to read first”), but especially with the methods for proper reading (“how to read”). Emphasis is placed on the use of metaphors from the world of the senses, such as “eating,” “swimming,” “gardening,” “eyeing a house,” etc. In a final section, a somewhat unconventional – but still serious – attempt is made to compare Martin Luther’s Table Talks (Tischreden) and his mixture of Latin and German with Zhu Xi’s use of the classics in his explanations.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412003
Magdalena Butz
Late medieval collections of exempla and parenetic texts subject inattention and distraction during Mass and prayer to much rebuke. Ensuring proper attention is thus of key concern in Stephan von Landskron’s Hymelstrasz (1460s), which gives a detailed account of the factors that are essential for good, salvific prayer. By adapting monastic attention practices to his female and lay readership, Stephan aims to enable those believers who could not understand the exact wording and content of (Latin) prayers to pray in what he deemed suitably salvific fashion. The article offers a close reading of Stephan’s argument pointing out the benefits but also some problems of his approach.
中世纪晚期的范例和家长文本的集合在弥撒和祈祷中引起了人们的注意力不集中和分心。因此，确保适当的关注是Stephan von Landskron的Hymelstrasz(1460年代)的关键问题，该书详细描述了良好的救赎性祈祷所必需的因素。通过将修道院的注意力练习适应于他的女性和外行读者，斯蒂芬的目的是使那些无法理解(拉丁)祈祷文的确切措辞和内容的信徒能够以他认为合适的救赎方式祈祷。这篇文章对Stephan的论点进行了仔细的解读，指出了他的方法的好处，但也指出了一些问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412006
N. Detering
The ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ has become an influential concept in contemporary behavioral psychology and economics. It has not yet been systematically introduced to literary studies, however, even though prophecies count among the long-lasting motifs of Western literature. This article aims to differentiate the psychological model of the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ by first defining its basic narrative structure and identifying various formal realizations of the structure. A second section argues that these variants are historically dependent – they emerge and evolve with time. I will devote special attention to a typically modernist variant, which surfaces around 1900 in short stories by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Schnitzler. These stories evince the general difficulty of distinguishing between the attribution of causality and its modes of narrative representation. As a third section suggests, a poetics of self-fulfilling prophecies might help to appreciate the role that ambiguity and perspectivism play in any cause-and-effect-narratives, may they be fictional or factual. In light of this, the article reflects more generally on the possibilities and challenges of a dialogue between social psychology and literary studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412007
Ingo Stöckmann
The paper reconstructs Rudolf Borchardt’s significant Pindar-Essay (1930) with regard to a transfer and retransfer of forms and thus suggests a formpoetic reinterpretation of Borchardt’s writings.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412004
V. Lobsien
The essay enquires into evidences of the beyond in John Donne’s Anniversaries. In describing Donne’s attempts not only to give a comprehensive account of the depravity of a world incurably sick, failing and near its end, but also to gain a truly metaphysical understanding of postmortal life in a resurrected body, I outline his poetics of liminality and transition. Asking how death is engrained in life and how life enters and indeed survives death, Donne unfolds, in virtuoso performance and reflexion of allegory, a topology of relationality together with an impressive monumentalization of his own poetic brilliance.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412005
Michael Auer
A hitherto neglected battle of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes was fought out in two lyrical poems celebrating the feats of Louis XIV. Boileau’s ode on the successful siege of Namur in 1692 calls upon the spirit of Pindar to stage the city’s capture in such a sublime way that the poem looses sight of the sun king. Perrault responds a year later with a rhetorically regularized ode that deploys a Horatian model in order to reassert royal authority as a continual triumph of victory and peace. Thus, the ancien chooses the subversive Pindar while the moderne prefers the (ostensibly) more imperial Horace. When William III retakes Namur in 1695 another, now British, response to Boileau conjures up both ancient odists. First Congreve lets his sovereign drown in the triumphant battlecries of soldiers that he amplifies in his ‘Pindarick’ verse and then, by means of a Horatian recusatio, rejects all responsibility for this drowning.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05412001
Markus Asper
When it comes to science writing, narrative has attracted little attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by presenting a brief pilot survey on narrative in the Aristotelian Corpus. My main concern here is to understand the workings of narrative in the process of knowledge creation. Aristotle, apart from his paradigmatic role in the history of knowledge, offers a broad and varied corpus. The paper proceeds in three steps: After a few introductory remarks on the concept of ‘narrative’, I will give a brief overview of narrative in Aristotle. Then, there follow a few examples for the main epistemic functions of narrative in Aristotle. After that, five epistemic grand narratives, actually ‘stories’, told by Aristotle, demonstrate that he has a method of narrative construction, that is, of epistemic storytelling, which has been very successful. I attempt to cast this method in a poetics-style list of rules. The paper shows that Aristotle skillfully uses different forms of narrative in order to produce knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301010
Andreas Höfele
Shakespeare’s Fortinbras has just two brief appearances and fewer than thirty lines to speak. But notwithstanding his physical absence during most of the play, he exerts considerable sway, representing the political world beyond Elsinore and the antithesis to Hamlet. As such he plays a major role in the political afterlife of the play. The article traces the metamorphoses Fortinbras undergoes in his afterlife in Germany from the mid-nineteenth century through the First and Second World Wars to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301013
Xiaojing Wang
The Chinese poetic parallelism (Duizhang) as a central aesthetic instrument of classical Chinese poetry is extraordinarily difficult to translate. The meaning and association triggered by its structure must be lost in translation. The aim of the present work is to show, with the helpaw of Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic theory, what is actually lost by translating a Duizhang couplet. That depends on how the mechanism of the Duizhang fulfills its aesthetic function. The answer to this question could advance the discussion how to understand Chinese poetics, how to promote poetic translation, and how to enrich the thesaurus of world literature.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301011
W. Menninghaus
This study focuses – by way of a close reading – on (1) the multiple subtleties in the poetic diction and word morphology of Hölderlin‘s ode „Heidelberg“, (2) its metonymic macro-structure, (3) the oscillations between an aesthetics of the lovely („lieblich“) and the sublime, (4) the instances of blissful self-mirroring that depart from Narcissus‘ unhappy fate, and (5) the explicit poetics of the „image“ („Bild“) in this ode. A special emphasis is placed on Hölderlin’s creation of a series of novel German words that combine two words into new compounds.
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