Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301012
Zornitza Kazalarska
At the Window, in the “Kitchen of the Weather”: Reflections on the Poetics of the Synoptic. The focus of this article is on the interplay between phenomenology and meteorology and its poetics in Czech and Slovak art and literature. The first part of the paper explores the possibilities of the interaction between non-meteorological and meteorological atmospheres in the interwar prose of Ivan Horváth and Milena Jesenská, using the figure of the window scene as an example. The second part of the analysis is devoted to Zdeněk Košeks autodidactic art and the “notational iconicity” (S. Krämer) of his diagrammatic archive of observations on everyday life and the weather in the 1990s. As methodological instruments for the exploration of the poetics of synoptic perception serve rhythmanalytical (H. Lefebvre), meteopoetological (M. Gamper, U. Büttner / I. Theilen) and atmosphere-oriented (G. Böhme, H.U. Gumbrecht, B. Meyer-Sickendiek) approaches.
在窗边,在“天气的厨房”——对《观》诗学的思考。本文的重点是现象学和气象学及其诗学在捷克和斯洛伐克的艺术和文学之间的相互作用。本文的第一部分以窗景的形象为例,探讨了伊凡Horváth和米莱娜·杰森斯科在两次世界大战之间的散文中,非气象气氛和气象气氛相互作用的可能性。分析的第二部分致力于zdenk Košeks自学艺术和“符号象似性”(S. Krämer)他的图表档案观察日常生活和20世纪90年代的天气。作为探索天气感知的诗学的方法论工具,为节奏分析(H. Lefebvre),气象学(M. Gamper, U. bttner / I. Theilen)和大气导向(G. Böhme, H.U. Gumbrecht, B. Meyer-Sickendiek)方法提供服务。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301009
C. Gross
Renaissance poetics tend to promote the illusion of oral proximity over the distance of written or even printed texts. Orality evokes a notion of communicative closeness that results in a direct transfer of affects between a lyrical speaker and his/her addressee. In Maurice Scève’s Délie (1544), the lyrical persona employs orality in order to amplify his emotionally charged rhetorics of lamentation and thus to elicit the addressee’s compassion. In contrast, all references towards writing appear to be deeply intertwined with the notions of absence, silence and distance. In the light of the emerging practice of letterpress printing in the city of Lyon, Scève’s poems reflect their own status as a material artefact, while they interrogate in the same time their potential to forge a bond with a spatially distant but emotionally close reading public.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301008
T. Bulang
This essay explores different concepts of health during the Middle Ages. For clergy and monasticism, the idea of an ascetic life shapes the concepts of body and soul. The nobility defines health with regard to power, genealogy and representation. The pater familias cares for health and prosperity of the family, as well as of the working people and the animals of his household. All these concepts include also ideas of sexuality and reproduction. Different ideas of health get mixed up and interfere in Hartmann’s von Aue tale Der arme Heinrich. Thus, also the sexual implications of the discourses get confronted, what results in a unique poetic eroticism.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301007
A. Comparini
The essay addresses the problem of time in lyric poetry and proposes a narrative understanding of the lyric genre. I argue that temporality belongs to the lyric discourse as part of its transtextual structure as a result of the lyric’s organization in the book form. This transtextual structure gives lyric poetry a narrative framework and a specific type of temporality, the diachronic time, which contrasts with the temporality of the single poem, the synchronic time. By focusing on the relationships between opener and closure poems, I propose a narrative-diachronic model in order to reposition the temporality of lyric poetry in the book form. By dealing with Paul Celan’s second book of poems, Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955), the analysis will finally show how diachronic time corresponds to the narrative structure of the collection, and how time and the narrative are deeply linked in lyric poetry by means of the book form.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301003
A. Rudolph, Alexandra Urban
In his love songs, Heinrich von Mügeln demonstrates how he as a Sangspruch poet aspires to mastery (Meisterschaft). This is characterised by a complex and varied use of imagery relating to nature, which allows the poet to surpass the representation and negotiation of love in the Minnesang tradition both rhetorically and conceptionally. The texts also draw on learned knowledge and should be read taking the concepts of natural philosophy of the so-called School of Chartres into account. Using the example of the first three songs, the article shows to what extent the texts thus occupy a position that is as significant as it is exemplary in the lyric history of the late Middle Ages.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301004
A. Schäfer, Alexander Waszynski
This essay tests the concept of the possible world for an analysis of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s novel Arminius (1689/90). Starting from the basic literary concept of ‘world’, which usually has the function of establishing a distinction between reality and fiction, the paper first examines, using the example of battle, fight, and war, how the novel depicts contingency and how its depictions are related to the concepts of providentiality and doom, which in turn are reconstructed as subsequent interpretations. A narrative analysis traces how the novel contributes to a pluralization of the concept of ‘world’. While Lohenstein presents coincidences and misfortunes in their fateful concatenation encompassing long periods of time and thus, on the whole, establishes the aberration of the narrated from the historical events, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exemplifies the equality of possible and real world frequently by resorting to narrative strategies. The possible world of the novel serves as a reminder that the real world could be a different one.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301002
Leon Wirtz
Xenophon’s account of the Battle of Cunaxa has been much praised by ancient and modern critics for its vividness (enargeia). Plutarch states that he brings the events right before our eyes, making us participate in the dangers. However, critics have been reticent about how this effect is created. This paper tries to explain the vividness with recent enactivist theories of cognition: the selective focus on certain aspects of scenes is in alignment with the way humans perceive objects in the real world. Less vivid passages do exist but are still narrated in a dynamic fashion. However, greater prominence is given to enactive passages, thus creating a high degree of vividness.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301006
C. Zehnder
The Pathos of Sobriety: Reconsidering Laconism This article attempts to reframe literary laconism by distinguishing between laconism as a stylistic routine of the twentieth century and as a universal device of deceiving expectations. To do so, it addresses the systematic question of how laconism suggests what it omits and how we can deal with the unresolved status of pathos within this process. Using a broad international corpus with an emphasis on Russian literature, this article asks, moreover, to what extent the category of laconism, rhetorical at its basis, can prove fruitful for literary history.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.30965/25890530-05301005
Ingo Berensmeyer
This paper examines narrative representations of authors and authorship in English-language fiction from the 1890s to the 1920s. From Henry James onwards, such narratives revise the basic, and by that time exhausted, plot elements of the novel of literary apprenticeship as featured in Dickens’s David Copperfield and Thackeray’s Pendennis, among many others. Instead of focusing on ideas of development and professional formation, they depict authors subdued by a sense of shrinking opportunities and lack of movement. Aging or dying authors in James and Mann, young but soon disappointed authors in Joyce, Forster, or Green: wherever we look, we find an ambivalence of promise that often ends in stagnation, failure, even death. In this context, my paper presents a close reading of three less frequently discussed modernist variations on the literary bildungsroman: Arthur Machen’s The Hill of Dreams (1897/1907), E.M. Forster’s The Longest Journey (1907), and Henry Green’s Blindness (1926).
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