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Paradigms

Literature and the Human Sciences

Herausgegeben von: Rüdiger Campe und Karen S. Feldman

ISSN: 2195-2205

e-ISSN 2195-2213

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This new series presents original scholarly and essayistic work addressing the central status of literature in and for the human sciences. At stake in the monographs and essay collections are paradigms of literary forms for thinking the human sciences: the knowledge involved in a literary work; how modes of reading and writing shape and depend on an epoch or area of thinking; literature's affinities and points of resistance to what we call the humanities and the sciences. In other words, the series examines how literature works with and upon philosophy, rhetoric, technology, anthropology, sociology, statistics, economics, history, experimental science, mathematics etc. Paradigms is primarily concerned with German letters, but also includes its European and comparative literary contexts.
All volumes will be published in English and are first reviewed by the series editors followed by a peer review from two academics in the particular area of specialization. Two to four volumes are planned annually.

Editors
Rüdiger Campe (Yale University)
Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley)

Editorial Board
Paul Fleming (Cornell University)
Eva Geulen (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)
Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London)
Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University)
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)
Helmut Müller-Sievers (University of Colorado at Boulder)
William Rasch (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Elisabeth Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Submission Format
The series accepts monographs and edited volumes, if they systematically approach a specific topic and show a high level of coherence and focus.
Please submit an abstract and table of contents with narrative description of each chapter (4–5 pages total, single-spaced) as well as a CV along with the complete manuscript.
Only complete manuscripts can be evaluated. In exceptional cases, abstracts or outlines can be submitted to discuss the general fit of a book with the series’ editors. Please understand that a final commitment for publication can only be reached on the basis of a complete manuscript.
Manuscripts should have a minimum length of circa 200 pages (approximately 500,000 characters including spaces).
Please submit your abstract, table of contents, and CV as one file; the complete manuscript as a second file to Dr. Myrto Aspioti: myrto.aspioti@degruyter.com.

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Series Editors: Rüdiger Campe (Yale University); Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley)

Zusatzmaterial

Buch Open Access 2023

Truth in Serial Form

Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930

Malika Maskarinec, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

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This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture of the late nineteenth century, very much shaped by these serialized formats, sees itself confronted with questions of truthfulness in new and profound ways, just as perhaps the accelerated rhythm, anonymity, and broadened accessibility of new media today have created new possibilities for the dissemination of misinformation and, conversely, give us cause to interrogate anew our notions of truthfulness. By examining both the formal operations of both aesthetic and scientific objects in a series form, and the historical context of their publication or presentation, the contributions in this volume examine the often strained, but yet immensely productive relationship between the way in which a series negotiates questions of truthfulness: both by reference to the rules established in its series form or by means of its serial format. This volume provides ten detailed cases of the series form from the history of science and journalism, and the history of painting, photography, and literature as well.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795110
ISBN:: 9783110795110
ISBN:: 9783110795080
ISBN:: 9783110795158
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Making an Entrance

Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche

Juliane Vogel, Michael Thomas Taylor

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

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How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth century and ending with Nietzsche’s Dionysian theater, this monograph explores specific modes of entering the stage and the conditions that make them successful—or cause them to fail. The study argues that tragic entrances ultimately always remain incomplete; that the step figures take into visibility invariably remains precarious. Through close readings of texts by Racine, Goethe, and Kleist, among others, it shows that entrances promise both triumph and tragic exposure; though they appear to be expressions of sovereignty, they are always simultaneously threatened by failure or annihilation. With this analysis, the book thus opens up possibilities for a new theory of dramatic form, one that begins not with the plot itself but with the stage entrance that structures how characters appear and thus determines how the plot advances. By reflecting on acts of entering, this book addresses not only scholars of literature, theater, media, and art but anyone concerned with what it means to appear and be present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754490
ISBN:: 9783110754490
ISBN:: 9783110754551
ISBN:: 9783110754384
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Drama, Theater
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Drama, Theater
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2022

Primitive Thinking

Figuring Alterity in German Modernity

Nicola Gess, Erik Butler, Susan Solomon

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

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This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three figurations of alterity prominent in European primitivism: indigenous cultures, children, and the mentally ill.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695090
ISBN:: 9783110695090
ISBN:: 9783111520803
ISBN:: 9783110695151
ISBN:: 9783110694680
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2020

Facing Poetry

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature

Frauke Berndt

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) is known in intellectual history for having established the discourse of philosophical aesthetics with his "Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus" (Reflections on Poetry) and "Aesthetica" (Aesthetics), which consists of two books and is considered Baumgarten’s most important work. But this book amends that history. It shows that Baumgarten's aesthetics is a science of literature that demonstrates the value of literature to philosophy. Baumgarten did not intend to pursue such a task, but in working on his philosophical texts and lectures, he ends up analyzing, synthesizing, and contextualizing literature. He thereby treats it not as belles lettres or as a moral institution but rather as an epistemic object. His aesthetics is thus the first modern literary theory, and his articulation of this theory would never again be matched in its complexity and systematicity. Baumgarten’s theory of literature has never been discovered. It waits latently to take its place in intellectual history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624519
ISBN:: 9783110624519
ISBN:: 9783110623314
ISBN:: 9783110623482
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

The Restorative Poetics of a Geological Age

Stifter, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Aesthetic Practices of Geohistoricism

Timothy Attanucci

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

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At this moment, the concept of the Anthropocene is challenging us to rethink our relationship to the earth and its history, but we have not yet fully understood the extent to which our knowledge of earth history has shaped the historical culture of modernity. This study examines the relationship of geology — including its central narratives, metaphors, topoi, and other imaginative tools — to the broader historical imagination that has until now been called “historicism.” Two major figures in the rise of historical conservationism and aesthetic historicism in nineteenth-century Europe guide this study of geohistoricism: the Austrian writer, painter, and art conservator Adalbert Stifter, whose novel Der Nachsommer (Indian Summer, 1857) narrates the rise of geohistoricism through the friendship of a geologist and his art-historian mentor; and French architect and conservator Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, whose theoretical/abstract/imaginative understanding of “restoration,” based on the geology of Georges Cuvier, informed his practical approach. These authors reveal how geological thought provides a powerful new way to envision and reconstruct past worlds, even as it also demonstrates the erosive precariousness of our present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110689471
ISBN:: 9783110689471
ISBN:: 9783110685534
ISBN:: 9783110689518
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Sea Fortune

Literature and Navigation

Burkhardt Wolf, Joel Golb

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafaring has never lost its adventurous dimension. Understanding their origin remains a challenge for the history of science and the history of literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
ISBN:: 9783110610734
ISBN:: 9783110609349
ISBN:: 9783110608953
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wissen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

Arts of Connection

Poetry, History, Epochality

Karen S. Feldman

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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At the intersection of literary theory, philosophy of history and phenomenology, Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality explores the representation of connections between events in literary, historical and philosophical narratives. Events in a story can be seen as ordered according to proximate causation, which leads diachronically from one event to the next; and they can also be understood in view of the structure of the narrative as a whole – for instance in terms of the unity of plot. Feldman argues that there exists an essential narrative tension between these two kinds of connection, i.e. between the overarching arrangement or plot that holds together events from "outside," as it were, in order to produce an intelligible whole; and the portrayal of one-by-one, "interstitial" connections between events within the narrative. Arts of Connection demonstrates, by means of exemplary moments in Aristotle and classical German poetics, eighteenth-century philosophy of history, and twentieth-century phenomenology, that the task of connection is a fraught one, insofar as the formal unity of narrative competes or interferes with the representation of one-by-one connections between events, and vice versa.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110631494
ISBN:: 9783110631494
ISBN:: 9783110763409
ISBN:: 9783110630947
ISBN:: 9783110630589
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 19. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Narratologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

Bureaucratic Fanatics

Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization

Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself.

At the end of the 18th century, a new and paradoxical kind of fanaticism emerged - rational fanaticism - that propelled the intensive biopolitical management of everyday life in Europe and North America as well as the extensive colonial exploitation of the earth and its peoples. These excesses of bureaucratization incited in turn increasingly fanatical forms of resistance. And they inspired literary production that provocatively presented the outrageous contours of rationalization. Combining political theory with readings of Kleist, Melville, Conrad, and Kafka, this genealogy of bureaucratic fanaticism relates two extreme figures: fanatical bureaucrats driven to the ends of the earth and to the limits of humanity by the rationality of the apparatuses they serve; and peculiar fanatics who passionately, albeit seemingly passively, resist the encroachments of bureaucratization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110606935
ISBN:: 9783110606935
ISBN:: 9783110736694
ISBN:: 9783110595192
ISBN:: 9783110606041
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Andere Themen
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

The Narratology of Observation

Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism

Martin Wagner

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594348
ISBN:: 9783110594348
ISBN:: 9783110595185
ISBN:: 9783110593594
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Narratologie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2018

Fact and Fiction

Elements of a General Theory of Narrative

Albrecht Koschorke, Joel Golb

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"?

Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and small stories abounding in everyday discourse, guiding all kinds of social activity, and providing common ground for whole societies—but also fueling controversies and hostilities. Moreover, "narrative" is not only a scholarly category but has come into use in many fields of social activity as a tool for cultural self-fashioning. This book is based on the assumption that to a large extent, social dynamics is modeled in an aesthetic manner via narratives. It explores the narrative organization of cultural spaces and time-frames, the mythological shaping of communities and adversaries, and the co-production of narratives and institutions aimed at stabilizing social life. In this framework, the epistemological problem looms large of how an instrument as unreliable as narrative can participate in the creation of a social consensus regarding truth.

This problem endows the general topics explored in this book with a particularly contemporary dimension.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349689
ISBN:: 9783110349689
ISBN:: 9783110384123
ISBN:: 9783110347081
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Narratologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2017

Productive Digression

Theorizing Practice

Anselm Haverkamp

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression.

The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of poiesis as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20^th century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collected here redirect the logic of research towards the epistemological grounds of an aesthetics underneath the hermeneutics of every day life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486216
ISBN:: 9783110486216
ISBN:: 9783110484960
ISBN:: 9783110482584
Fachgebiet:: Kunst
Fachgebiet:: Kunsttheorie
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie
Fachgebiet:: Erkenntnistheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2016

The Art of Dreams

Reflections and Representations

Barbara Hahn, Meike Werner

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the unconscious: One is the attempt of interpreting, of unveiling the hidden meaning of dreams. The other one is not so much concerned with the relation of dream and meaning, of dream and reality, it rather concentrates on trying to find means of representation for this extremely productive force that determines our sleep.
The essays collected in this book explore both attempts. They follow debates in philosophy and psychoanalysis and they study literature, theatre, dance, film, and photography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110433852
ISBN:: 9783110433852
ISBN:: 9783110437515
ISBN:: 9783110433531
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Bildende Kunst, Fotografie
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Psychologie, Psychoanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2015

Irony and the Logic of Modernity

Armen Avanessian

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation, parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the constitutive irony of modernity’s ethical, poetical, and political logic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424423
ISBN:: 9783110302202
ISBN:: 9783110424423
ISBN:: 9783110424607
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Einzelne Motive, Motivforschung
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2015

The Ends of Satire

Legacies of Satire in Postwar German Writing

Daniel Bowles

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy these devices in new contexts, this book reexamines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110359534
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035935-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035953-4
ISBN:: 9783110651706
ISBN:: 9783110386844
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Gattungsforschung, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2015

The Science of Literature

Essays on an Incalculable Difference

Helmut Müller-Sievers, David E. Wellbery

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication.

The present collection of essays seeks to open up this discussion by posing the question’s historical and systematic double: has there been a science of literature, i.e. a mode of presentation and practice of reference in science that owes its coherence to the discourse of literature? Detailed analyses of scientific, literary and philosophical texts show that from the late 18th to the late 19th century science and literature were bound to one another through an intricate web of mutual dependence and distinct yet incalculable difference. The Science of Literature suggests that this legacy continues to shape the relation between literary and scientific discourses inside and outside of academia.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324341
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032394-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032434-1
ISBN:: 9783110382198
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Einzelne Motive, Motivforschung
Verlag:: De Gruyter